National Health Care Expenditures Grew Steadily in 2019
Total U.S. health care spending increased 4.6% to reach $3.8 trillion in 2019, according to CMS’s Office of the Actuary. Medicare spending experienced a higher growth rate in 2019 than in 2018, increasing by 6.7% ...
Insurers Sound Off on Recent Proposed Rules From CMS
While CMS has been busy issuing health care regulations in the Trump administration’s final days, industry trade groups have likewise been churning out comment letters that detail their position on those proposals...
News Briefs
✦ Three years after they unveiled a joint venture tasked with lowering the cost and improving the quality of employee health care, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway are disbanding the company...
Wall Street Is Optimistic About Health Insurers’ Fortunes in 2021
Equities analysts are bullish on the health insurance industry in 2021, despite the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wall Street also expects more mergers and acquisitions will take place in 2021 than the...
2020 Year in Review: In Hindsight, It Was a Time Like No Other for Payers
For the health insurance industry — alongside the rest of the health care sector, and even the world — the COVID-19 pandemic was undeniably the event that dominated 2020. However, other issues also captured head...
HealthCare.gov Sign-Ups Rise in Most States
Over 8.2 million people selected or were automatically reenrolled in health plans for 2021 on HealthCare.gov as of the Dec. 15 deadline, which was just shy of the 8.3 million sign-ups for the 2020 plan year, accordi...
Winners, Losers Remain Unclear With Surprise Billing Fix
After years of failed attempts, Congress has finally come to an agreement on a measure to end the practice of surprise medical billing — leaving experts debating whether the new policy can slow the growing cost of...
By the Numbers: The National Health Insurance Market in 2020
The year 2020 has been filled with unpredictability amid all the changes ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the pandemic-driven economic crisis and ballooning unemployment, member enrollment has seen si...
Payers See Value in Job Training for Medicaid Members
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is the largest employer in the Pittsburgh area, with hundreds of job openings on any given day. At the same time, the integrated network’s UPMC Health Plan covers nearly...
MCO Stock Performance, November 2020
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