Navigating the Family Glitch Fix: Hurdles for Consumers with Employer-sponsored Coverage

With the 2023 Marketplace Open Enrollment now underway in all states, many are focused on the roll out of the so-called “family glitch” fix as one of the new changes to watch in this tenth Marketplace Open Enrollment.

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Survey Says: Voters Want Federal Government to Extend Telehealth Flexibilities

According to a recent survey conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of AHIP’s Coverage@Work campaign, voters who receive health coverage through their jobs value telehealth and want the federal government to extend the telehealth flexibilities.

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Google Rolls Out Search Features That Aim To Make It Easier To Sign Up For Medicaid, Medicare

The Google Search team has quietly rolled out multiple features for its search engine that aim to make it easier for users to access key information about obtaining Medicaid and Medicare benefits, as well as which doctors locally accept those types of coverage.

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Here’s How Those Looking To ‘Age In Place’ Can Fund Home Health-Care Services

Some 70% of people want to age at home, yet only 10% have long-term care insurance, a recent HCG Secure/Arctos Foundation study found. Furthermore, about half of respondents had no idea how much in-home care would cost.

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Audits—Hidden Until Now—Reveal Millions In Medicare Advantage Overcharges

Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average. Summaries of the 90 audits, which examined billings from 2011 through 2013 and are the most recent reviews completed, were obtained ...

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Covid Is No Longer Mainly A Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated. Here’s Why.

For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine. Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. It’s a continuation of a troubling ...

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