People thinking about starting a business or retiring early — before they’re old enough for Medicare — may want to wait until November, when they can see just how much their Affordable Care Act health insurance will cost next year. Sharp increases are expected. Premiums for ACA health plans, also known as Obamacare, which many early retirees ...

Voya has bad news for employers with fully insured health plans that want to avoid big cost increases by shifting to self-insured plans: Rates for stop-loss insurance will also go up. A lot.

In response to recent federal legislation that cuts billions of dollars to Medicaid, Santa Clara County supervisors on Thursday unanimously voted to add a ballot measure to November’s special election that would increase local sales tax by five-eighths of a cent (0.625%) for five years to try to backfill some of the projected lost federal ...

Kaiser Permanente closed its second quarter of the year with a billion dollars of operating income and a $3.3 billion bottom line—but operating headwinds on the horizon have leadership taking a hard look at the health system’s cost structure and potential efficiencies. The quarter’s performance is a step ahead of last year, when the integrated ...

When President Donald Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in at least 14 states who were designing their own plans, according to health industry observers. Georgia is the only state with a work requirement in place for Medicaid, but several states have been pursuing such ...

The drug price negotiation program has withstood another procedural effort in striking down one of the Inflation Reduction Act’s most significant provisions. In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, a panel of judges upheld (PDF) a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit. A judge dismissed the lawsuit last year, saying most of the ...