CMS on Friday significantly changed how Affordable Care Act exchanges will run next year, intending to lower out-of-pocket costs for Obamacare customers, streamline enrollees’ user experience and update how insurers are paid for the risks they take on their members. In its second update to the annual benefit and payment parameters rule, the agency announced ...
Health insurers remained profitable across markets in 2020 because of an unprecedented decrease in health spending and utilization caused by the pandemic. Hospitals, physicians and other health care providers canceled elective procedures to free up beds, staff and supplies early in the pandemic and to limit unnecessary exposure and risk of infection. Patients also ...
With about a month left in the Legislative session, Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish a state public health insurance option. Senate Bill 420, led by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, would make the so-called Nevada Option available through the state’s insurance marketplace and state-contracted health insurers
Nevada Health Link, the online health insurance marketplace operated by the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, is offering even bigger coverage savings to eligible uninsured and insured off-Exchange Nevadans in accordance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden on March 11.
A temporary federal policy aimed at making health insurance more affordable for tens of millions of Americans could become permanent.
The State of Nevada said Saturday it’s joining other Western states in resuming use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson doses.