An estimated 4 million Americans will lose health insurance over the next decade if Congress doesn’t extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage, which expire at the end of the year. Florida and Texas would see the biggest losses, in part because they have not expanded Medicaid eligibility.
Providence announced it is cutting 600 mostly administrative jobs in a restructuring to adapt its operations for a new reality of reduced reimbursement and higher costs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding Medicaid services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities by approving Medicaid State Plan Amendments (SPAs) in several states.
The amendments give the Indian Health Service (IHS) an…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding Medicaid services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities by approving Medicaid State Plan Amendments (SPAs) in several states.
The amendments give the Indian Health Service (IHS) an…
Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead. For doctors, these denials are frustrating and time-consuming. For patients, they can be devastating.
On February 10, new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger notification rules went into effect that upped the amount of information required by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice before the agencies approved a deal.
The American Medical Association on Wednesday said it strongly supports the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025 that would temporarily reverse the 2.83% payment cut to physicians.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed eight new members to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices two days after firing all 17 members.
Kennedy named the new members in a post on X on Wednesday.
Cigna is introducing an AI-powered virtual assistant to help members get their questions answered during health insurance interactions.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week did something he had promised not to do: He fired every member of the scientific advisory committee that recommends which vaccines should be given to whom. And he replaced them, in some cases, with vaccine skeptics. Meanwhile, hundreds of employees of the National Institutes of Health sent an open letter to the agency’s director, accusing the Trump administration of policies that “undermine the NIH mission.” Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
