CMS Reveals New Medicare Card Design
CMS.GOV- SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave the public its first look at the newly designed Medicare card. The new Medicare card contains…
AnMed Health to pay $7 million to settle False Claims Act allegations
WSPA Channel 7 News Columbia SC- Published: September 27, 2017, 10:58 am Updated: September 27, 2017, 12:37 pm COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – AnMed Health has agreed to pay over $7 million…
States hurry to fix health-insurance markets
The Economist- Aug 31st 2017 | WASHINGTON, DC Though insurers remain, Obamacare is teetering in places NOT long ago, America’s health-insurance markets seemed to be drying up. In June 49 counties…
Major insurance groups call part of health bill ‘unworkable’
By ALAN FRAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 AM ET Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health…
Five myths about health insurance…
Washington Post- By Alexis Pozen June 30, 2017 Alexis Pozen is a professor of Health Economics at CUNY School of Public Health and a co-author of the textbook "Navigating Health Insurance.…
CMS lifts sanctions on Cigna’s Medicare plans
FierceHealthcare- by Leslie Small | Jun 16, 2017 4:48pm Nearly a year and a half after it was hit with government sanctions, Cigna has gotten the green light to resume selling…
Expensive medical insurance claims are rising
by Insurance Business 06 Jun 2017 Healthcare claims that breach the million-dollar mark continue to rise, according to Sun Life’s latest catastrophic claims report covering data from 2013-2016. Among other…
Poll: Most older Americans want Medicare to cover long-term care
CBS News- AP / May 26, 2017, 7:44 AM WASHINGTON -- A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older…
DOJ pursues UnitedHealth in second Medicare fraud suit
Axios- Bob Herman- May 17 The Department of Justice is intervening in a second whistleblower lawsuit that alleges UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance and services company in the country, has…
House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
NY Times- By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR MAY 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act,…