The Biden administration on Monday followed through on its proposal to cut next year’s base payments to Medicare Advantage plans an average of 0.16%, despite pressure from insurers and their allies in Congress. Why it matters: While the plans will wind up seeing a net increase once payments are risk-adjusted to account for the health of their customers, ...

Some Medicare prescription plans will start paying for weight-loss medications for people with heart disease.

As expected, insurance-friendly groups are upset over the feds’ MA benchmark payment decision Monday. Global strategy firm Capstone said the CMS decision most negatively impacts Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health, Cigna and certain providers like Agilon that were expecting high utilization rates last quarter to be represented in the growth rate, which decreased compared to ...

Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always been active, playing sports and riding her bike to school every day. Then, in the late-1990s, while working as a staff scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, she discovered that exercise can spur the growth of new brain cells in mature mice. ...

Employers emphasize an increase in health and dental insurance, while employees say increased pay and 401(k) matches are tops, and this could be part of the ongoing issue of high turnover, a new study suggests.

In what’s expected to be a three-day strike impacting three South Bay hospitals and possibly patient care, thousands of Santa Clara County nurses plan to walk off the job early Tuesday in protest over workplace conditions, wages and staffing ratios. The strike — the first in the union’s history — is scheduled to start at ...