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.
By being prepared and implementing strategic solutions, employers can mitigate some of the financial pressures that may arise from the IRA, ensuring that their employees and retirees are better protected from the ripple effects of this landmark legislation.
States may be getting ready to crack down even harder on pharmacy benefit managers. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will be giving member regulators a crash course on PBM policy next week in Denver, at the NAIC’s fall national meeting. PBMs help health insurers and self-insured employer health plans cover prescription drugs. One NAIC ...
Cigna Group (CI.N), opens new tab said on Monday it is not pursuing a combination with rival health insurer Humana (HUM.N), opens new tab, days after Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president raised investor hopes that any merger would face far less antitrust scrutiny. Humana shares rose after Tuesday’s election as investors bet on an easier antitrust review ...
The overall number of Americans without health insurance dropped by 8.2 million from 2019 to 2023. These findings are included in a new report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The findings are featured in the report, “Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2023.” It ...
Everyone agrees primary care is crucial to a functioning healthcare ecosystem and to a healthy society. Being able to deliver preventive care and intervene early saves lives and downstream costs. But it is just not working as well as it should be, according to providers. A panel* of primary care experts considered the drawbacks of ...
Nov. 5, 2024, is here. Voters will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the presidential election, shaping the course of health policy for the next four years. Here is how the two contenders may approach key health issues.
Healthcare policy remains a highly partisan issue. But ICHRAs — built off President Obama's 21st Century Cures Act but expanded by President Trump — is reliably bipartisan. It's worth examining how these candidates and their party platforms might influence the ICHRA market going forward.
As open enrollment begins this month at Covered California, state residents shopping for health insurance through the agency can take advantage of more financial help than at any time since the Affordable Care Act went into effect. In 2024, 1.5 million Californians received an enhanced premium tax credit from the U.S. government that they were ...
When Camila Bortolleto was 9 years old, her parents brought her from Brazil to the U.S. Bortolleto’s parents are undocumented, but in 2013 she was approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed her to get a job and, with it, job-based health insurance. Bortolleto, now 36 and living in Connecticut, left her ...
Nearly 80% of employees "strongly agree" or "agree" they will spend more time reviewing their employee benefits options and coverage this year than they did during the last enrollment period.