by Jordana Choucair | Dec 14, 2021 | Payers
A new survey from Mercer found that employer health insurance costs spiked in 2021 after a sharp drop in 2020. The average cost for insurance per employee rose by 6.3 percent in 2021 as care use returned to more normal levels. Insurance costs increased by 3.4 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 10, 2021 | Payers
The Biden administration settled on a plan to have private health insurers pay for at-home COVID-19 tests after concluding that it would be too expensive and ineffective to ship free tests to people across the country. The administration’s approach, which...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2021 | Payers
The CMS issued a notice announcing that health insurers won’t be required to implement new rules intended to speed up their data-sharing efforts until the agency establishes a standard way to share the data. The rules were set to take effect January 1, 2022. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 8, 2021 | Payers
A Kaiser Family Foundation county-by-county analysis found that premiums for the ACA Marketplace benchmark silver plan are decreasing for the fourth year in a row. Across counties, average premiums before tax credits fell 1.8 percent for the lowest-cost silver plan...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 3, 2021 | Payers
A new Urban Institute report estimates that 13 million adults delayed getting or didn’t fill prescription drugs prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to cost. Nearly 10 percent of Americans who were uninsured all year reported unmet prescription drug needs,...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Payers
A new poll from Willis Towers Watson shows that nearly 85 percent of employers plan to offer COVID-19 testing or test employees regularly as they return to the workplace, 80 percent of which say they’ll do so weekly. More than half (57 percent) of employers...
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