Category: Health Insurance

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: American Health Under Trump — Past, Present, and Future

Dreaming of a Trump victory, Republicans have a wish list of health policy changes — including loosening Affordable Care Act regulations to make cheaper coverage available and ending Medicare drug price negotiations. Meanwhile, after a publicly reported death stemming from a state abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris is emphasizing the consequences of Trump’s work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Tami Luhby of CNN, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Joanne Kenen of Politico and Johns Hopkins University join KFF Health News senior editor Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these stories and more.

Interoperability in healthcare moving forward despite challenges

Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working toward for years, and now payers and healthcare organi…

HRSA warns Johnson & Johnson of consequences of 340B rebates

The Health Resources & Services Administration has sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson warning the company of the consequences if it proceeds with its planned 340B rebate proposal.

California Medicaid Ballot Measure Is Popular, Well Funded — And Perilous, Opponents Warn

Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve Medi-Cal patients, has united a broad swath of California’s health care, business, and political establishments. But a newly formed, smaller group of opponents says it will do more harm than good.

These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.

A decades-old manufacturing company opened a clinic and made primary care and prescriptions free for employees and their families.

Express Scripts sues Federal Trade Commission over PBM report

Express Scripts by Evernorth, a Cigna company, is suing the Federal Trade Commission, demanding that it retract a July report on the pharmacy benefit manager industry.

Cigna launching E-Treatment virtual care through MDLIVE

Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits division of The Cigna Group, has launched an E-Treatment option through MDLIVE by Evernorth
Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without any direct interactio…

CHS to acquire 10 urgent care centers in Arizona

Community Health Systems’ subsidiary Northwest Urgent Care will acquire 10 Arizona urgent care centers from Carbon Health.
Northwest Urgent Care in Tucson, Arizona, is part of Northwest Healthcare’s integrated healthcare network serving Tucson and surr…

Insurers will make $11.8 billion in Medicare quality bonus payments this year

After increasing by more than 400% between 2015 and 2023, federal spending on Medicare Advantage bonus payments will decline by $1 billion to $11.8 billion in 2024 – an 8% decline – following the expiration of pandemic-era policies that temporarily inc…

Steward CEO faces criminal contempt resolution by Senate committee

The Senate Help, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee is scheduled to meet in an executive session on Thursday at 10 a.m., on a Contempt Resolution against Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre.