Dartmouth Health has joined a coalition of New Hampshire hospitals suing the state over its Medicaid Enhancement Tax.
New Hampshire Hospital Association, DH and its affiliates and Concord Hospital and its affiliates filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the tax, which dates to the 1990s.
North Carolina House Bill 434, the CARE FIRST Act, would reform the prior authorization process by putting patients first and ensuring North Carolinians receive medically necessary care when their physicians deem it appropriate — not when their health insurance company finally gets around to approving it.
Maine hospitals are grappling with crippling costs, plummeting revenues and aging infrastructure, with many forced to cut services, delay critical investments and stretch resources beyond safe limits.
Washington hospitals are raising alarm that taxes and insurance payment caps proposed in the state Legislature could jeopardize their finances and undermine patient care.
Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink.
Heather Turner of Minot has spent the past year trying to get her son the medication he needs to survive. Despite recommendations from multiple medical specialists, their insurance company continues to deny coverage — decisions she says are increasingly being made not by doctors, but by algorithms.