Medicare Advantage represents more than 55% of the Medicare population, but the program has faced mounting criticism from some health systems, particularly over administrative hurdles such as prior ...

Hospitals are also seeing higher uncompensated care as individuals lose Medicaid coverage or decide not to purchase health insurance. If there are changes to the health insurance exchanges, more ...

The murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 3 focused national attention on the denial of coverage claims ...

"Seeing is believing," the founder of lab company Truvian told me. So I tried its tabletop blood testing device—which promises results in 30 minutes—for myself.

Across the country, whether it’s about skyrocketing costs or access to care, there seems to be wide agreement that health ...

Below is a roundup of payer-centric news headlines you may have missed during the month of January 2025. | You may have ...

President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promises to kick off his second term in office with a tidal wave of ...

A shortage of private medical specialists in Tasmania is forcing privately insured patients onto already long public hospital ...

Physicians would get a 3% Medicare fee-for-service pay increase -- with primary care doctors getting a little more and other ...

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Congress created Medicare Advantage in 1997 to demonstrate for good and all ... Don’t I want, as a patient, more money to be lavished on my health care? The sickest customers do not.

The Indiana House GOP’s 2025 legislative priorities hope to build on previous initiatives that aimed to bring down health ...