Becoming mired in discussions about public versus private options is not the best avenue, Instead, we can work to make Covid-related state executive orders permanent.
Across Missouri, Cigna is the only one of seven insurers to get ratings. The others have not yet been in the marketplace for the three years needed to merit a score.
“Few markets can go bad on you as fast as a health insurance market,” said Mike Kreidler, a former regional director in the federal department of Health and Human Services.
UnitedHealth just joined the California exchange this year, and it only had about 1,200 enrollees so the immediate impact on overall coverage numbers is minimal.
Tuesday, UnitedHealthcare announced that they suffered huge financial losses and are pulling back from Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges. UHC is one of the largest players in the exchanges but will be remaining in just a handful of states next year. The losses expected, according to CEO Stephen Hemsley, are expected to exceed $1 billion […]
The whole purpose of an exchange is to give people the opportunity to shop around and to change plans if they want.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
How will healthcare change because out-of-network care is getting more expensive on the exchanges?
Two-thirds of the 131 carriers that offered silver-level preferred provider organization plans in 2015 will either drop them entirely or offer fewer of them in January, according to an analysis by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
It sparked the surprising idea that a new business model might emerge in which people pay more to prevent access to their EMR data.
Now that the dust has settled on the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling that upheld federal subsidies in states that do not operate their own health insurance exchanges, it seems as if the Affordable Care Act is here to stay in its current form.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The second open enrollment for the Affordable care Act commenced on November 15, yet a survey completed just last month by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nine out of ten uninsured respondents were unaware when open enrollment actually began.[1] While millions of Americans signed up last year for health care coverage through Medicaid or Qualified […]
A few lucky shoppers in Tennessee, Texas, Indiana and Ohio could pick up the best deals in health insurance today, instead of fighting the mobs for big screen TVs and Frozen dolls. Bernard Health has store fronts in five cities in four states. Founder Alex Tolbert wants to help people figure out what insurance plan […]
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was released last month announcing that there will be 25% more health plans participating in the federal and state based insurance marketplaces. That’s 77 more health insurance options for consumers across different markets. There were over 250 health plans last year, with some […]
Some of the states that were most successful in enrolling consumers on the exchanges embraced brokers. In California, 39 percent of people who signed up for a private exchange plan enrolled with a broker; in Kentucky the number reached 44 percent.
http://www.startribune.com/business/275827561.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue Lee Schafer of the Minneapolis Star Tribune puts some context around a big payer’s decision to leave the state’s health insurance exchange, MNSure. Schafer said the decision was the result of the free market and strategic decisions PreferredOne made. PreferredOne is a small health plan that’s insuring employer groups. Schafer said that PreferredOne decided […]
