Phil Galewitz covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals and various state health issues. He has covered the health beat for nearly two decades. He is a board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Federal standards requiring states find ways of delivering care to Medicaid enrollees in home and community-based settings will take effect in 2022 instead of 2019
Trump’s team scored him a touchdown, but their run to the goal line wasn’t pretty. For example, business groups — such as the drug and hospital industries — played no part in shaping the AHCA.
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.
The Healthy Indiana Plan that Vice President Mike Pence established in 2015 as the state’s governor has brought Medicaid coverage to more than 350,000 people.
Nearly every state reported actions to increase the use of home or community-based settings for people needing long-term care, the report found.
Most hurt will be marketplace consumers in Arizona, North and South Carolina, Georgia and parts of Florida, where only one or two insurers will be left when open enrollment season begins Nov. 15.
An Obama administration report from this week indicated the individual health insurance market has steadily added healthier and lower-risk consumers in contrast to the warnings from Republicans questioning the stability of those exchanges.
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Eleven are still in business, but four in Oregon, Ohio, Connecticut and Illinois will disappear by fall due to financial insolvency. Oregon’s Health Co-Op and Connecticut’s HealthyCT were told to close by their state’s regulators last week. Tuesday, the Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Co. in Illinois was ordered to close by state regulators.
If you can put aside the downfall of HealthSpot, as this article does, telemedicine kiosks look like a pretty good idea.
Insurers — who can charge higher rates in most states to admitted smokers — are steamed. They say the cheating that smokers do to escape tobacco surcharges on their monthly premiums means higher rates for everyone else.
Yet researchers found no improvement in adults’ own assessments of their health, a conclusion echoed by similar studies, the authors wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The Urban Institute said the federal government could do more to find the uninsured by tapping into data it collects from other assistance programs.
Its mission is to prove that convenient, no-cost primary care, delivered with top-notch customer service, can lower hospitalization rates and overall health costs.
Physicians can now bill Medicare $86 for an office-based, end-of-life counseling session with a patient for as long as 30 minutes.
The Kaiser report found that 43 states this year use electronic data from sources such as the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration to verify an applicant’s income before enrollment.
Brokers say SHOP has fewer health plans and more expensive coverage policies than can be purchased outside the exchange.