Since the loss of cost-sharing reduction payments related to coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, insurers have boosted their rates by anywhere from 7 to 38 percent, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
If the current Affordable Care Act employer coverage reporting rules stay in place, the Internal Revenue Service has to do something to ease employers' desperation over getting accurate Social Security numbers for the employees' spouses, children and other dependents.
Actuaries and insurance buyers may be on opposite ends of the insurance industry spectrum, but we all have a common goal securing the best benefits and coverage while keeping costs low.
Eight of the 15 fastest-growing occupations are in health care, with median salaries in 2016 ranging from $21,920 for personal care aides to $101,480 for physician assistants
A deal between the two would create a health-services giant and a bigger competitor for UnitedHealth Group Inc., which is the largest U.S. health insurer and has its own own clinics and a pharmacy-benefits unit.
Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor is accused of helping fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic by bribing doctors to prescribe a powerful form of fentanyl to patients who didnt need the potent drug.