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CMS has proposed speeding up the response times for authorization, but some desperate patients have turned to publicly shaming insurance companies on social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved.

HCA, whose data breach may have impacted 11 million patients, is among several health care companies that have recently suffered such attacks, prompting the FBI and Secret Service to issue warnings to potential targets.

Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Virginia Foxx sent a letter to Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to "cease further action" on a new fiduciary rule, which has "created unnecessary instability for retirement plans."

Last week, the Biden administration launched a fresh student debt relief effort, opening applications for a new income-driven repayment plan, however, some employers are mentioning student debt repayment in job ads.

Even though six drug companies have filed lawsuits to halt the Medicare drug negotiation program, the companies have until Oct. 2 to present data on their drugs to CMS, which will make initial price offers in February.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers - many are attempting to block the federal government's effort to control drug prices - say the high costs support research and development and point out that Americans get new treatments first.

The federal government should impose restrictions on when account holders can take distributions from retirement accounts and provide more time to pay back 401(k) loans, according to fintech IRALOGIX.

Federal regulators say these arrangements "appear designed to" redirect Medicaid dollars away from facilities that treat the poorest patients to those that provide no Medicaid-covered services, according to a new CMS proposal.