STAT14h
What I learned about health insurance rage as the nation’s first ‘HMO czar’
In 2000, in response to the frustration of 23 million California HMO consumers, I was appointed by then-California Gov. Gray Davis to be the nation’s first “HMO czar.” The new agency I was running was ...
The National Law Review6h
HHS’s Proposed Security Rule Updates Could Require Group Health Plan Document Changes and New Plan Sponsor Security Practices
Proposed regulations may require employers to invest additional resources to safeguard group health plan participants’ ...
Crain's New York4h
Top earners at Affinity Health Plan
The compensation data below highlights the highest-paid employees at a tax-exempt organization that filed a Form 990 for 2022 ...
California Health Plan Leaders Unite for the First Time to Launch New Payment Model Demonstration Project to Fortify Primary Care
Statewide Initiative integrates a unified value-based payment model to invest more in primary care, improve care quality and advance health equity across CaliforniaOakland, California, Jan. 30, 2025 ...
Wash, dry, enroll: Helping people access health care, at the laundromat
State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them ...
Many new moms in Texas don’t know they qualify for a year of Medicaid, doctors say
Almost all of the pregnant women Dr. Joshua Splinter sees at his rural East Texas practice are on Medicaid. For years, he ...
edinburghnews.scotsman.com8h
Plans to turn former controversial Edinburgh sauna Scorpio Leisure into an HMO rejected
Plans to turn a former controversial Edinburgh sauna into an HMO have been rejected by the council as they failed to comply with the Local Development Plan.
Daily Caller on MSN2h
Senate Committees Waging War On RFK Jr.’s MAHA Vision Are Knee Deep In Big Pharma, Food Industry Cash
Contentious hearings to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services this week have ...
Enrolling in Medicare? 3 Ways Retirees Can Lower Their Costs
A lot of older Americans look forward to their Medicare enrollment because they assume it'll mean affordable healthcare from that point forward. In reality, the costs enrollees face under Medicare can ...
New Study Published in JAMA Network Open Finds Procedural Prescription Denials Can Increase Acute Care Utilization and Spending in Medicaid
A new study published in JAMA Network Open has found that while procedural prescription denials curb immediate drug costs, some denials result in increased acute care utilization and costs, which ...
Digital Health11h
No set date for the NHS to be paperless, says Amanda Pritchard
Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, has admitted that there is no set date at which the NHS will become paperless.