A committee of New York City labor leaders voted to approve a new Aetna-run Medicare Advantage plan for municipal retirees Thursday – a move that will force many former city workers off of their existing health coverage.
In a recent Gallup poll, 38% of Americans surveyed said they had put off medical treatment last year due to cost, up from 26% in 2021. The new figure is the highest since Gallup started tracking the issue in 2001.
Vermonters losing health insurance coverage because UnitedHealthcare canceled its contract with the University of Vermont Health Network are protected by a federal law.
Lawmakers started to dig into Gov. Maura Healey’s annual state budget on Tuesday, probing the administration on how it is preparing for a process that much of the budget is predicated upon, the trimming of the health insurance rolls at MassHealth.
Penn State Health agreed to pay more than $1.2 million to avoid potential liability for improperly submitting Medicare claims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania wrote in a statement Tuesday.