Category: Insurance

Many of her clients don’t believe it when Maryland tax preparer Diana Avellaneda tells them they might qualify for low-cost health insurance. Or they think she’s trying to sell them something. In…

The Affordable Care Act may be struggling with its own success. Record enrollment over the last two years brought more consumers into the market. At the same time, many insurers began offering…

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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Prices paid to hospitals during 2020 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 224% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporation report.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — It’s been the case for decades — high numbers of U.S. women who give birth lose or face changes to their health insurance afterward.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA – MAY 24, 2021 – A new study underscores the importance of health insurance coverage continuity in access to and receipt of care and care affordability in the United States.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it’s enough to make some drop their coverage – especially if they’re healthy

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Last month, hundreds of millions of Americans got a cash infusion from the government, as part of the American Rescue Plan.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Nearly 1.7 million times in the past year, Americans have checked into hospitals to get treated for severe cases of COVID-19.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When it comes to consumer health insurance, you’ve got a lot of complicated things you’ll need to think about.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When it comes to consumer health insurance, you’ve got a lot of complicated things you’ll need to think about.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – With the coronavirus pandemic accelerating a shift towards telemedicine, 2020 has been a year of tremendous change in the medical industry.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO – Competition and choice continue to fade away for many patients as most highly concentrated markets for commercial health insurance have grown even more concentrated than they were five years ago

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, DC — A new national survey from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) finds physician anesthesiologists are being forced out of network as insurance companies terminate their contracts, often with little or no notice.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Health insurance costs weigh heavily on the minds of many middle-aged adults, and many are worried for what they’ll face in retirement or if federal health policies change, according to a new study just published in JAMA Network Open.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) –  – Insurance companies having variable policies for covering gender-affirming breast/chest “top” surgery in transgender patients

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) reaffirmed its commitment today to covering the uninsured by supporting critical improvements to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – This year, as you look back at the many years your mother cared for you, consider the possibility that she may require care herself someday.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATS 2019, Dallas, TX ─ Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, who are covered by a high-deductible insurance plan are more likely to forgo needed health care….