Oak Park resident Aaron McManus recently exposed the inadequacies of the American health-care system to task, racking up almost a million views on TikTok in the process. The non-binary father (whose pronoun is “they”) took to the video-sharing service after receiving a $40,000 bill for the removal of a football-sized cancerous tumor — a bill their health insurance provider refused to cover.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis moves into a second term, Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Simone Marstiller is stepping down from the job that includes overseeing Florida’s massive Medicaid program. DeSantis announced the move in a Twitter post Monday.
We are in the midst of a medical debt crisis in America, which is affecting the lives of more than 100 million Americans, including many Montanans. This crisis is worsening racial disparities in health and wealth and forcing Montanans to change the way they live due to financial constraints.
Late last month, Raymond Johnson, 83, began feeling short of breath. “It was difficult just getting around,” he recently recalled by phone from his apartment in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston. “I could barely walk up and down the stairs without tiring.”
ATLANTA – The state plans to implement a new Medicaid expansion plan – Georgia Pathways — that includes work requirements next July after several years of legal wrangling over the controversial proposal.
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average.