Posts Tagged ‘medicare’
Individual Rates to Soar in California
Subscribe to Insurance Insider News by Leila Morris IN CALIFORNIA • Individual Rates to Soar in California HEALTHCARE • Employer Coverage Rises After Massachusetts Health Reform • Healthcare Spending Growth Expected to Remain Low • Medicare Hospital Price Data Reveals Wide Variations • Employee Nabbed for Cheating a Wellness [...]
A Public Health Compromise for California
The Legislature is poised to offer health insurance to millions of additional low-income Californians, with the federal government covering much of the cost. The expansion would be a boon to counties, which collectively spend billions of dollars caring for the indigent uninsured. One sticking point, though, is what to do with the more than $4 [...]
Will California’s Eldercare Reform Help or Hurt?
Amid all the recent worry about people lacking health insurance, one vulnerable group of Californians appears to be suffering from too much, not too little coverage. Low-income older adults who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal (California’s name for Medicaid). That might sound like a good thing. But the lack of coordination [...]
Policymakers Overlook A Major Cost Driver
HEALTHCARE • Policymakers Overlook a Major Cost Driver • DOL Delays Exchange Coverage Notice • HHS Allows Exclusions to Contraceptive Mandate • States Fall Behind in Enacting Market Reforms • Medicare’s Bundled Payment Initiative • Health Account Balances Resume Growth LONG TERM CARE INSURANCE • Consumers Want Lower Cost [...]
Insurers Nervous Over Prospect of Romney Victory
Although the health insurance industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law, some major carriers stand to rake in billions of dollars from new customers who'll get health insurance under the law. The companies already have invested tens of millions to carry it out. Were Romney elected, insurers would be in for months of [...]
Settlement Proposed for Medicare Coverage of Home Health Care
Under a new proposal by the Obama administration, thousands of U.S. residents with chronic conditions or disabilities to qualify for Medicare coverage of home health care services. The administration has agreed to change Medicare rules to cover skilled nursing and therapy services when they are needed to maintain the patient's current condition [...]
Changes Are Coming to Regional Health Care Markets
Subscribe to Insurance Insider News by Leila Morris IN CALIFORNIA • Changes Are Coming to Regional Health Care Markets • Exchange Board Considers Allowing Stand Alone Vision Plans • Unum Offers Dental Insurance in California • LA City Employees Are Shut Out of Cedars Sinai & UCLA • An Employers’ Guide to the Health Care [...]
Molina Healthcare Fights to Keep Growing
Molina Healthcare has lost two key state contracts recently, and its stock has tumbled. The company, which serves exclusively as a managed-care plan for government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, said these were only temporary set backs. Healthcare companies are competing to profit from a flood of government contracts for treating the [...]
Health Net Chosen to Participate in “Dual Eligibles” Program
"Dual Eligibles" are the state's sickest and poorest residents, and the California Department of Health Care Services has selected Health Net to participate in it's Dual Eligibles pilot program, under which LA County residents who receive both Medicare and Medi-Cal would be enrolled in a managed care plan according to the San Fernando Valley [...]
