Medicare & Medicaid
It's the unanticipated consequence of the 2017 cut of the ACA's cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers.
The tax is scheduled to go into effect in 2020.
Buttigieg would combat racial and gender bias in part by redirecting funding to under-resourced communities.
With less than two weeks to enroll, both the number of new and renewing consumers increased this year over last.
Centene will retain IlliniCare's Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative business and its YouthCare foster care contract, set for February.
This model is part of a strategy to use the redesign of primary care as a platform to drive broader healthcare delivery system reform.
There is often a disconnect between what health plans provide and what patients want, according to Keith Roberts of Change Healthcare.
Week 3 of open enrollment sees 26% fewer signups than in 2017, when there were two additional days to enroll.
For a typical 50-year-old, buying into Medicare would cost about $2,500 less than buying a gold-level plan on the insurance exchanges.
The number of consumers selecting such plans represent an increase from the 76% who did so last year.