UnitedHealthcare is planning to participate in the ACA insurance exchanges in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan and Texas. This will bring its total ACA marketplace footprint to 18 states.
The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, dismissing the lawsuit brought by Texas, 17 other states and two individuals on the grounds that they were not able to prove they were harmed by the law. Industry stakeholders celebrated the court's long-awaited decision.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Unless the Supreme Court strikes down the ACA, it will remain in place for the foreseeable future and will see expansion.
In a wide-ranging interview, a senior attorney at the state Health Department discusses the national pandemic response, the need to work across the aisle, and lessons learned during a clerkship in Israel.
With the Democrats leading the Senate and House, and Joe Biden installed as president, the Affordable Care Act will be restored and strengthened over the next four years, an expert from the Kaiser Family Foundation predicts.
Millions of Americans without healthcare insurance could be eligible to get coverage for free, or nearly free, through financial assistance offered under the Affordable Care Act. But many who recently lost their employer-based coverage may not be aware of the options available to them.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
The states are trying to prove they were harmed by the 2010 health law — and thus have “legal standing” to challenge its constitutionality.
The Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a motion to expedite its hearing of a case that could determine the future of the ACA. In December, an appeals court ruled the individual mandate was unconstitutional.
More than 8.3 million people enrolled through the federal ACA exchanges for 2020, down just 2.4 percent from 2019.
The conservative courts have more or less declared that moderate solutions won't fly. The only remaining option then is Medicare For All.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
The first piece of financing to disappear happened before most of the law even took effect and more disappeared over time.
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.
Each candidate staked out a place on the health policy continuum but the biggest divide was between former Vice President Joe Biden — whose health care proposal includes a government-run public option insurance plan — and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Sen Bernie Sanders, both backers of Medicare for All.
In a recent analysis, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 21 percent of employers offering health benefits will have at least one plan which applies for the tax.
"Earlier concerns that the market would collapse or insurer exits would lead to counties with no coverage available at all have proven unfounded," the Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in an analysis.