Iowa's lone ObamaCare insurer has requested a 57 percent rate increase for 2018, citing uncertainty over how the Trump administration will handle the healthcare law. In a revised rate request, Medica on Wednesday asked for an increase 13 percentage points higher than its...
Iowa's lone ObamaCare insurer has requested a 57 percent rate increase for 2018, citing uncertainty over how the Trump administration will handle the healthcare law. In a revised rate request, Medica on Wednesday asked for an increase 13 percentage points higher than...
A handful of Obama-era payment models, including bundled payments for joint replacement and treatment of several other conditions, will be eliminated or dramatically rolled back if Medicare implements a draft rule that was proposed this week.
The Trump administration said on Wednesday the federal government would make a set of payments to insurers for August, despite threats from the president that the funding would be halted following the failure of Senate Republicans to repeal most of the Affordable Care Act.
Minuteman Health Inc., a small Boston-based health insurer, has failed to raise enough money to continue selling plans next year, forcing thousands of people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to find new health insurance for 2018.
More employers offer health savings accounts as part of their benefit packages, aiming to lower costs for themselves and employees alike. Changes that make the accounts more consumer-friendly are likely to be part of any future healthcare reform.
Physicians believe the simplicity of single-payer would create fewer distractions and enable them to focus on taking care of patients rather than reimbursement.
Scrapping Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies would increase premiums on the most popular plans by 20 percent next year and swell the deficit by $194 billion over a decade, according to an analysis by the CBO.
There are fewer than 400 people who currently buy Obamacare coverage though the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace in the two counties, in Ohio and Wisconsin, that remain at risk of not having an insurer next year, according to a map maintained by the Kaiser Family...
That’s down from $83 million a year earlier for the startup focussed on selling Obamacare plans. In Texas and California, the company brought in more in premiums than it spent on care, though in New York its health costs still exceeded premiums.
