Health Insurance
The average premium for a benchmark plan at HealthCare.gov will decline 4% in 2020 to $388, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
Near universal health care coverage could be achieved without a complete overhaul of the health system, according to a report released today by the Urban Institute and the Commonwealth Fund.
President Trump Friday issued a proclamation requiring most individuals seeking to enter the United States via an immigrant visa to have approved health insurance coverage within 30 days of entry or 鈥渢he financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.鈥
An estimated 27% of adults under age 65, or 53.8 million, had a preexisting health condition in 2018, according to a study released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In a letter to the editor responding to a recent editorial in Modern Healthcare, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack says hospitals are working to supply information on consumers鈥 expected out-of-pocket costs.
Regarding Modern Healthcare's Sept. 27 editorial: Hospitals and health systems understand 鈥 and share 鈥 consumers鈥 frustrations with understanding how much they will be expected to pay for care. And that鈥檚 why the field has advocated for solutions.
Hospitals are working to supply鈥
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 5% this year to $20,576, including employer and worker contributions, according to the latest annual survey of employer-sponsored health insurance by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The trend toward greater health plan participation at the county level in the health insurance exchanges has continued for 2020, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation tracking tool.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Officer for Civil Rights yesterday announced that Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million and take corrective action to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest鈥
The American College of Emergency Physicians and Medical Association of Georgia this week filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel Anthem's Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia to rescind a policy that retroactively denies coverage for emergency patients.