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UnitedHealth Group may exit the insurance exchange market, as the deterioration in product performance has weakened its financial outlook, the company said in an earnings update released Thursday.
The State of Michigan on Tuesday denied a request by Henry Ford Health System's health plan to allow it to keep two regions, including Detroit, to its approved contract for the state's Medicaid program.
Consumers have received more than $2.4 billion in Affordable Care Act premium rebates since 2011, but the number of people owed refunds by insurers decreased by more than a million this year compared to last, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Joint Commission, which this week named more than 1,000 hospitals top performers for quality in its annual report, said it will put the program on hiatus until 2017 while it adjusts its methodology to account for shifting focus on new quality measures.
Week two of open enrollment saw another 500,000-plus consumers select plans in the federal marketplace, bringing the total for the first two weeks to over 1 million, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Cancer patients shopping on federal and state insurance marketplaces often find it difficult to determine whether their drugs are covered and how much they will pay for them, the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society says in a report that also calls on regulators to restrict how much insurers can charge patients for medications.
An estimated 59 percent of Humana's individual Medicare Advantage members have access to primary care physicians in value-based relationships.
The State of Michigan on Tuesday denied a request by Henry Ford Health System's health plan to allow it to keep two regions, including Detroit, to its approved contract for the state's Medicaid program.
Geisinger Health System's plan to offer refunds for 'dissatisfied' surgery patients came out of extensive study on how to react when patients have bad experiences, the healthcare provider said. Now it's putting its faith in the ProvenExperience program and app to turn bad situations around.
OIG will determine the extent to which Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services validated hospital inpatient quality reporting data.