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...
In May 2017, hospital administrators implemented a policy that essentially denies medically necessary surgery to uninsured low-income residents of Bernalillo County by requiring them to pay 50 percent of the cost of surgery up front before the operation can be scheduled...
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...
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.
Most states would let insurers compensate for the termination of payments by raising premiums substantially for silver plans offered through the marketplaces, the Congressional Budget Office said.
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.
Just three years ago, Community Health Systems was the largest for-profit operator of hospitals with more than 200 facilities scattered in rural and suburban areas with growing populations. Now, the company is hemorrhaging money, sitting atop a mountain of debt and...
Edward-Elmhurst CEO Mary Lou Mastro said during a call with reporters Tuesday that the system has not yet determined how many layoffs will be necessary or which positions might be affected. She said the system has already started holding vacant positions open and now has...
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.
