by Jordana Choucair | Nov 10, 2022 | Payers
Bright Health Group announced it will end Medicare Advantage (MA) and Affordable Care Act (ACA) operations in all states except California for 2023. In October, the insurtech announced it would exit the ACA exchange business to focus next year solely on its MA...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 9, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Voters in three states moved to protect abortion rights on Tuesday in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Voters in Michigan voted to amend the state constitution to establish an “individual right to reproductive freedom, including...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 9, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Voters in South Dakota Tuesday approved a ballot measure to extend Medicaid benefits to more than 40,000 low-income adults. The measure – known in South Dakota as “Constitutional Amendment D” – would extend Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act so that...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 9, 2022 | Payers
Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser told investors on Tuesday that the insuretech company has effectively abandoned Medicare Advantage (MA) after attracting few policyholders during its four years in the market. Oscar Health offered MA plans in New York and Texas this...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 9, 2022 | Providers
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) last week released an analysis revealing that half of U.S. hospitals spent 1.4 percent or less of their total operating expenses on charity care. The portion of spending “varied substantially” across the hospitals: 8 percent of...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 8, 2022 | M&A
A new Health Affairs study found that more health systems are targeting to acquire hospitals outside of their existing geographic regions. The researchers found that 55 percent of the 1,500 hospitals targeted for a merger or acquisition between 2019 or 2019 were...
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