The Washington Saves program, which will take effect in 2027, was signed into law late last week, and will require certain employers that do not offer a retirement plan to enroll employees into the state-run auto-IRA program.
Optum, which already has more than 90,000 employed or affiliated physicians, has agreed to purchase Steward Health Care's struggling physician group, which includes primary care in addition to a physician contracting network.
Highlighting the impact of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the feds are offering a bounty on information leading to the identification of anyone who holds a key leadership position in the "Blackcat" ransomware group.
Many hospitals are adding billions of dollars in fees for routine care in outpatient centers they own, raising patient costs for colonoscopies, mammograms and heart screenings, a new investigation found.
Testifying before the Senate, SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley said the agency is changing its policy of recouping past overpayments, after it took an aggressive stance last year by clawing back $4.7 billion from beneficiaries.
The $35 insulin cap reduces out-of-pocket costs for those with health savings accounts but new policies are needed to improve access to affordable insulin among commercially insured patients, says a new study.
So far, 500 employers who improperly received the tax credits to retain workers during the pandemic have returned more than $225 million to the IRS as part of a voluntary disclosure program that ended on March 22.
Benefytt Technologies, operating under various names such as Health Insurance Innovations, used aggressive marketing in a scheme to lure consumers in search of Obamacare health plans, says the Federal Trade Commission.