When Adam Zolot was ready to expand his paddleboard business into a warehouse-size space on San Francisco Bay, he wedged in one feature that was mostly just for himself: a sauna and cold plunge. An avid longtime traveler, Zolot had picked up his interest in saunas overseas – in the thermal springs of the Aeolian ...

“This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.” Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling. Facing budget ...

Employer health plans that pay out-of-network doctors or hospitals less than the providers billed now have to tell the providers exactly what plan is paying the bill. A plan that “downcodes” a claim must also give the provider some information about why it downcoded the claim. The new claim payment message requirements took effect last ...

A House Republican has introduced a new, expanded version of his Great American Healthcare proposal. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., filed a Great American Healthcare Act bill earlier this week. The bill is similar to the Great American Healthcare Plan bill that Burlison introduced in April. Like the earlier bill, the new Great American Healthcare bill ...

Medi-Cal cuts will strain hospitals already operating at a loss. The fallout: fewer services and higher costs for the privately insured too.

Aetna is happy with its employer plan business, but is not happy with the No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution system. Steven Nelson, the president of the CVS Health subsidiary, talked about the business today, during a conference call CVS held to go over results for the second quarter with securities analysts. In some recent ...