by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Payers
The CMS Office of the Actuary released a report stating that the U.S. spent $4.1 trillion on health care in 2020. The report found that S. health care spending increased 9.7 percent in 2020 – a rate that is significantly higher than the roughly 5 percent growth in...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 14, 2021 | Payers
A new study from Gallup and West Health indicates that 30 percent of Americans have skipped medical care for a health problem in the previous three months due to concerns about the cost. The percentage has tripled since March, reaching its highest point during the...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 14, 2021 | Payers
A new survey from Mercer found that employer health insurance costs spiked in 2021 after a sharp drop in 2020. The average cost for insurance per employee rose by 6.3 percent in 2021 as care use returned to more normal levels. Insurance costs increased by 3.4 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 10, 2021 | Payers
The Biden administration settled on a plan to have private health insurers pay for at-home COVID-19 tests after concluding that it would be too expensive and ineffective to ship free tests to people across the country. The administration’s approach, which...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2021 | Payers
The CMS issued a notice announcing that health insurers won’t be required to implement new rules intended to speed up their data-sharing efforts until the agency establishes a standard way to share the data. The rules were set to take effect January 1, 2022. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 8, 2021 | Payers
A Kaiser Family Foundation county-by-county analysis found that premiums for the ACA Marketplace benchmark silver plan are decreasing for the fourth year in a row. Across counties, average premiums before tax credits fell 1.8 percent for the lowest-cost silver plan...
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