As many as 371,000 Alabamians could see insurance costs increase if Congress doesn’t pass a law extending enhanced health insurance subsidies provided under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Payers pushed nurses to run screening tests and add unusual diagnoses, turning the roughly hourlong stops in patients' homes into an extra $1,818 per visit, on average, from 2019 to 2021.
If they can't strike a deal on prices by Sept. 1, 38 hospitals, affiliated physician groups and surgery centers in Texas, Colorado, South Carolina, and New Hampshire would become out-of-network for UnitedHealthcare members.
The survey found 45% of working-age consumers last year were erroneously billed, however, fewer than half of those patients challenged their health insurance company or a medical provider.
The proposed class action filed in Minnesota federal court by four ex-employees of Wells Fargo claims the bank violated a federal law requiring companies to prudently manage employee health and retirement plans.