As Democrats get down to negotiating and writing their budget reconciliation bill, The Washington Post’s Rachel Roubein notes that the legislation is poised to be the biggest health expansion since Obamacare.
CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest providers of value-based care, announced today that it delivered improved quality and $136 million in savings to Medicare for the 2020 performance year of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).
Cigna has been among several health insurance companies already benefitting from a special enrollment period that ended Aug. 15 for Americans to sign up for coverage under the ACA. More than 2 million Americans had signed up for such coverage as of a month ago.
The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. is mostly affecting unvaccinated Americans, who represent more than 95% of current cases of hospitalization and death. Given the average cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020 ran about US$42,200 per patient, will the unvaccinated be asked to bear more of the cost of treatment, in terms of insurance, as well?
After it became clear that the public option wasn't going to pass last spring, lawmakers supported a plan to devote $23.6 million to the "Covered Connecticut Program," an effort to provide free health coverage through the ACA exchange to as many as 40,000 qualifying people. The program launched in July.