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Reversal: Kentucky Restoring Medicaid Benefits for Thousands
Dental and vision care benefits will be restored for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients in a sudden reversal by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration following an outcry over the recent cuts. The coverage had been abruptly cut at the star…
Trump Promised Them Better, Cheaper Health Care. It’s Not Happening
President Donald Trump handed an influential business advocacy group what should have been a historic lobbying victory when he recently rolled out new rules encouraging small businesses to band together to offer health insurance. Trump, who’s touted th…
States: Workaround Succeeding After Cut in Health Subsidies
A workaround by states to counter Trump administration cuts to Affordable Care Act subsidies has largely succeeded in protecting consumers from higher costs, California and 17 other states said. The assessment came late Monday in a court filing asking …
The News on Drug Prices? Nothing Good
It has been two months since the president released his road map for lowering drug costs that seems to lead nowhere, and about a month since he predicted the “big drug companies” would announce “voluntary massive” price cuts. Here’s where things stand:…
The Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplaces by Type
Use this interactive map to review the status of state action on health insurance marketplaces.
Has Medicare’s Bundled Payments Initiative Lowered Costs?
Researchers in this study looked at how participating hospitals performed in Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative for five medical conditions (congestive heart failure, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sepsis, an…
