COVID-19’s Potential Double-Digit Hike on 2021 Premiums
April 7, 2020
According to a new report by Covered California, California’s marketplace, 2021 premium increases to individuals and employers from COVID-19 alone... View Article Read More
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COVID-19 Job Losses Could Drive Down Employer Plan Enrollment By As Much As 35M, Report Shows
April 7, 2020
As many as 35 million people could drop out of employer-sponsored coverage amid COVID-19, according to a new analysis. Read More
Trump Hints ACA Enrollment Should Be Reopened As A Matter Of Fairness
April 2, 2020
President Donald Trump Wednesday suggested that he might reconsider reopening enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, even though his administration reportedly decided against it. Read More
Coronavirus May Add Billions to the Nation’s Health Care Bill
March 31, 2020
With so much still uncertain about how widespread hospitalizations for coronavirus patients will be around the United States, a new analysis says premiums could increase as much as 40 percent next year if the pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays. Read More
In Coronavirus Relief Bill, Hospitals Poised To Get Massive Infusion Of Cash
March 31, 2020
Congress on Friday gave final approval to a massive funding bill that would steer an unprecedented amount of cash to the nation’s hospitals that are or soon will be struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
COVID-19 Bonanza: Stimulus Hands Health Industry Billions Not Directly Related To Pandemic
March 31, 2020
The coronavirus stimulus package Congress rushed out last week to help the nation’s hospitals and health care networks hands the industry billions of dollars in windfall subsidies and other spending that has little to do with defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
7 Healthcare-Related Items You May Have Missed in the $2T Coronavirus Stimulus Package
March 31, 2020
An enormous $2 trillion economic stimulus package includes major requirements for insurers to cover diagnostics and services associated with COVID-19 and gives some flexibility to hospitals. Read More
Telemedicine Surges, Fueled By Coronavirus Fears And Shift In Payment Rules
March 31, 2020
Lukas Kopacki, home from college after the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus, was feeling lousy for days with headaches, sore throat and difficulty breathing through his nose. But he worried that a trip to a doctor’s office might make him sicker. Read More
Covered California Re-Opens Enrollment Amid Expected Surge in Coronavirus Cases
March 24, 2020
Covered California is launching a second open enrollment period, effective now, to offer health insurance coverage to all Californians as the state faces a surge in cases of COVID-19, the disease brought on by the new coronavirus. Read More
Answering Employers’ Employee Benefits FAQs on COVID-19
March 24, 2020
The state of our nation – and the entire globe – has been turned upside down in light of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses are being forced to close their doors, or limit the services they provide and the ways they can offer them, for several weeks – or longer. These orders have come abruptly to most businesses, and many are struggling to find ways to cope. Read More