KHN Files Lawsuit To Force Feds To Disclose Medicare Advantage Audits

Kaiser Health News is suing the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release dozens of audits that the agency says reveal hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges by Medicare Advantage health plans.

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Insurers Test New Way To Cut Maternity Care Costs: Bundling

The thrill of delivering newborns helped pull Dr. Jack Feltz into the field of obstetrics and gynecology. More than 30 years later, he still enjoys treating patients, he said. But now, Feltz is also working to change the way doctors are paid for maternity care.

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Poll: Voters Back Medicare Expansion, Keeping Private Insurance

The majority of voters in a new poll supports a health care plan that would expand a public option but maintain the private insurance industry.

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Fewer People Maintain Obamacare Coverage Without Auto-Enrollment

Californians who lost the option to automatically re-enroll in an Affordable Care Act exchange plan were less likely to hold on to their insurance coverage than households that could enroll automatically, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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25 Californians Charged With $150M in Health Care Fraud

Twenty-five Southern California doctors and others are accused of billing Medicare and other health plans for $150 million in fraudulent charges.

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Where Trump and Pelosi Can Come Together on Drug Prices — and Where They Can’t

Many Republicans were quick to criticize House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new proposal to reduce drug prices. President Trump wasn’t one of them. Soon after the California Democrat released her drug-price bill Thursday, Trump said in a tweet that it was “great to see Speaker Pelosi’s bill.”

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