Health insurers are already making moves to expand their Medicare Advantage markets for 2023 despite uncertain financial markets and scrutiny of certain business practices.
In response to the Supreme Court's overturning of Americans’ constitutional right to abortion, large employers thought they had found a way to help workers living in states where abortions would be banned: provide benefits to support travel to other states for services. But that solution is only triggering questions.
Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel this week.
Patients of Wellstar doctors and hospitals who have UnitedHealthcare insurance will once again be insured as in-network patients, starting July 1. Wellstar and UnitedHealthcare last fall decided they could not agree on a new contract, and patients have been dealing with the fallout ever since.
California will become the first state to remove immigration status as a barrier to health care, making all low-income undocumented residents eligible for state-subsidized insurance regardless of age.
With this denial, the Overpayment Rule remains in full force and effect, and UnitedHealthcare, among other MA plans, must comply or potentially face False Claims Act liability.
