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January 24, 2024
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NABIP calls for clarity on CMS proposed rule impacting Medicare Advantage
Insurance News Net
NABIP, an association representing over 100,000 licensed health insurance agents, brokers, general agents, consultants, and employee benefits specialists seeks further clarification from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the proposed rule on Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Program. This rule pertains to significant changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, and other related health programs. Read More |
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Medicaid and state financing: What to watch in upcoming state budget debates
KFF
State legislatures are currently gathering to develop new budgets for state fiscal year (FY) 2025. Heading into this budget cycle, state fiscal conditions are shifting, with state revenues starting to decline following steep revenue growth during the pandemic. While states reported favorable fiscal conditions in KFF's recent budget survey, they noted uncertainty in their fiscal outlooks in the years ahead. Read More |
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act? What a second Trump term might mean for health care
USA Today
On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is once again promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a nebulous goal that became one of his administration's splashiest policy failures. The Obama-era health law is even more popular and widely used now than it was in 2017, when Trump and congressional Republicans proved unable to pass their own plan. Read More |
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MedPAC mulls standardizing Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits
Becker's Payer Issues
The Medicare Payment and Advisory Commission is considering standardizing the supplemental benefits Medicare Advantage insurers can offer, to make it easier for beneficiaries to compare plans. At its Jan. 12 meeting, commission staff, which advises Congress on Medicare, put forth several options for standardizing Part A and B cost sharing and hearing, vision and dental benefits. Read More |
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Obamacare enrollment is surging. Here's where.
Politico
Many Southern states are seeing Affordable Care Act enrollment surge as the number of people covered under such plans hits new highs. Last year, more than 20 million people signed up for year 2024 plans — a new high. The previous record was 16.3 million sign-ups for the 2023 plan year. Open enrollment ended Tuesday in most states. Read More |
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New York City looks to clear $2 billion in unpaid medical bills for 500,000
CBS News
New York City will purchase millions of dollars of medical debt and then erase it in effort to help as many as 500,000 residents, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. The program involves partnering with a nonprofit organization, RIP Medical Debt, that buys unpaid medical debt from hospitals at a steep discount and then clears it. Read More |
BeWellnm reports record enrollment for health insurance
Santa Fe New Mexican
BeWellnm, New Mexico's health insurance marketplace, closed its open enrollment Jan. 16 with a record 56,447 residents enrolling in a medical insurance plan. The enrollment count increased by 12,000 over last year, beWellnm reported, and 1,500 people enrolled on the final day. Read More |
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America's weight-loss drug boom, explained
Axios
An obesity drug boom is sweeping America, dominating headlines, upending entire industries and stoking belief in the transformational potential of appetite-suppressing injectable treatments like Ozempic. Behind the wave are plenty of unknowns, including the long-term health effects and how much the skyrocketing demand will drive up health spending. Read More |
ARPA-H to create medical trucks for health care access in rural areas
Medical Economics
A new federal initiative aims to take health care on the road to reach people living in rural areas around the country. The Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & Integrated Medical (PARADIGM) care program was announced this month by the administration of President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and its Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Read More |
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How AI will — and won't — change health care
Axios
Even AI optimists don't envision the technology fundamentally remaking the U.S. health care system anytime soon, but there's widespread agreement that it has the potential to vastly improve the quality of care and trim costly waste. Read More |
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