April 12, 2024 How Medicaid Enrollment Continues to Change About 23 percent of Americans who were disenrolled from Medicaid since early 2023 report they are still uninsured now, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
April 02, 2024 How Medicare Advantage Payments are Changing CMS has issued a new proposal that affects payment rates for next year’s Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
April 01, 2024 CMS Offers Special Marketplace Enrollment during Medicaid, CHIP Unwinding The Biden administration unveiled new strategies to help people maintain coverage following the return of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility renewals.
March 25, 2024 A Look at 10-Years of ACA Coverage Pennsylvania and its state peers continue to see coverage gains on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplaces.
March 14, 2024 OCR Investigating Health Information Security Following Change Healthcare Attack The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Right (OCR) has opened an investigation into whether UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare are taking appropriate steps to protect patients’ health information following the February cyberattack that continues to disrupt hospital operations and finances.
March 12, 2024 Biden’s 2025 Budget Blueprint for Health President Joe Biden has unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2025 that includes a focus on drug pricing, cybersecurity, and Affordable Care Act subsidies, among other health priorities.
March 11, 2024 Federal Government: UnitedHealth, Payors Must ‘Meet the Moment’ to Support Hospitals The federal government is calling on UnitedHealth Group and the payor community to support hospitals, physicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers following the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
February 08, 2024 A Look at Post-Pandemic Medicaid Renewals More than 16.2 million Americans have been disenrolled in Medicaid as the unwinding of the pandemic’s continuous enrollment provision moves past the halfway point.
January 29, 2024 Record-breaking Pennie Enrollment for 2024 Pennsylvania saw record enrollment on its health insurance marketplace Pennie, with more than 430,000 Pennsylvanians signing up for coverage for 2024.
January 17, 2024 CMS Releases Final Rule on Prior Authorization CMS today unveiled a final rule to streamline the prior authorization process and improve the electronic exchange of health information.