The effort to make patients better health care shoppers by increasing their out-of-pocket costs seems to be working, according to actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
President Donald Trump's new budget proposal for 2019 could provide enough funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost-sharing reduction subsidy program to make $8.1 billion in outlays in 2019.
Here's a look at five key Medicare provisions, other than straightforward funding and program extension provisions, in the current version of the FECCA text.
We've tried to get an idea of how Amazon might perform as a health-benefits revolutionary by comparing its health benefits with Kaiser Permanente's benefits.
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are trying to squeeze what they say is unjustified risk score inflation out of the Medicare Advantage program in 2019.
Litigation financing has existed for years in Australia and the U.S. but not in Canada due to a widely held interpretation of a provision of common law -- but that's changing.
During a conference call, executives from Anthem did something unusual: they talked about wanting to sell commercial health insurance coverage, and, possibly, to sell it through agents and brokers.
The company's selling expense amount for health insurance fell to $363 million in the latest quarter, down 8.1 percent from the amount for the fourth quarter of 2016.