by Jordana Choucair | Feb 8, 2023 | Payers
A study published in Health Affairs found that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans added 22.2 million beneficiaries while traditional Medicare lost 1 million enrollees from 2006 through 2022. According to the research, MA growth occurred broadly across counties and age...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 8, 2023 | Payers
Centene expects to lose an estimated 2.2 million Medicaid members during the redetermination process over the next 18 months, which would significantly dial back the insurer’s pandemic-era growth. For full-year 2022, Centene reported $1.2 billion in profit, down...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 8, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation to screen everyone who is pregnant for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The statement is consistent with a 2017 statement that urges doctors to monitor blood pressure throughout pregnancy...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 7, 2023 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address this evening. During the speech, he will ask for insulin cost caps for privately insured patients and a renewed bid to close the Medicaid coverage gap in Republican-controlled states that...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 7, 2023 | Health IT
A bipartisan group of senators requested that three telehealth providers provide a list of all third-party platforms they’ve shared user information with over the past three years, along with details about what types of user information they shared. The letters – sent...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 7, 2023 | Life Sciences
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden vowed that Democrats intend to protect Medicare drug price negotiation measures passed last year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act and that the pharmaceutical industry is targeting. Wyden said during an event that...
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