Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Federal cuts to Medicaid spending under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, compounded by fiscal belt-tightening in Sacramento, could cost clinics up to one-third of its annual revenue, requiring cuts to services.
A new report from the health policy research firm KFF, says the Trump administration has renewed focus on lowering the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., including the launch of TrumpRx. The latest polling from KFF shows that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults (41%) say it is likely the Trump administration’s policies will ...
Roughly one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, research from the West Health-Gallup Center showed on Thursday, as steeper prices and rising living costs hit households. A nationally and state-representative survey of nearly 20,000 U.S. adults in all 50 states and in the District ...
UnitedHealthcare is expanding its doula benefit to employer plans nationwide, the insurance giant announced Monday. The company said in the announcement that it intends to continue expanding the reach of its Doula Support program to additional employer groups throughout this year and expects that 7.2 million members would be eligible by Jan. 1, 2027. Through the program, ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the Trump administration. After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez for refusing what her lawyers called “the dangerous politicization of science,” Newsom hired her to ...
A proposal to remake the health insurance exchanges could open up a vast new market to emerging companies that sell health plans without provider networks. Cash-pay startups and reference-based pricing companies such as Sidecar Health and Imagine360 say they are ready to jump at the opportunity. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed ...
Publications like STAT are reporting that there’s a big gap between what the administration of President Donald Trump said about TrumpRx.gov before it launched and how the site really works. But early usage figures suggest that the site is still a force to be reckoned with. A review of web traffic data compiled by Similarweb shows that, in ...
Managers of Anthem Blue Cross think that in-network hospitals in California should use in-network physicians to treat health plan participants. The Elevance Health subsidiary announced earlier this week that it will impose a 10% payment penalty on some in-network hospitals and other health care facilities that bill patients for care provided by out-of-network doctors. “Participating facilities ...
Even as the top official for Medicaid and Medicare claims millions may be falsely enrolled, the Trump administration is urging younger people to sign up for high-deductible ACA plans.
Cheap semaglutide, the drug in Ozempic and Wegovy, could help millions with diabetes and obesity in 160 countries