by Jordana Choucair | Apr 11, 2022 | Payers
A recent study from Humana highlights how seniors faced common challenges related to social determinants of health (SDOH) and inequities before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that 49.3 of the more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage (MA) members...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 8, 2022 | Payers
Medicare will cover the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm only for clinical trials, despite the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving the drug for some 1.5 million people. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said the...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 6, 2022 | Payers
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll revealed that most Americans remain concerned about out-of-pocket costs and the quality of long-term care. According to the poll, 61 percent of the public, regardless of partisanship, wants lawmakers to limit how much drug...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | Payers
A recent RAND Corporation study found that regional health care markets across the country have experienced significant divergence in commercial-to-Medicare price ratios between 2012 and 2019, causing insurers to pay vastly different rates to hospital systems....
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 4, 2022 | Payers
S. companies are relaxing many of their COVID-19 requirements as the federal government eases mass preventive measures. Some companies have made masks optional in the office for all workers, while others dropped testing requirements for the unvaccinated or simplified...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 4, 2022 | Payers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced states can now seek to extend postpartum Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage by 12 months as opposed to just 60 days. Louisiana is the first state to offer the extended coverage,...
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