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Leapfrog ordered to remove safety grade for 5 Tenet hospitals

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Medical University of South Carolina acquires Palmetto Primary Care Physicians

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Moderna to Pay About $1 Billion to Settle Arbutus Litigation

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HHS bans Claude AI tool as Trump seeks full government blacklisting of Anthropic

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Mount Sinai, Anthem fail to reach new contract

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How States Verify Citizenship and Immigration Status in Medicaid

Cigna CEO David M. Cordani to retire

Healthcare Finance · Mar 4

Minnesota sues CMS over Medicaid funding deferral

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WCRI research shows uptick in comp costs as workers lose Medicaid

Business Insurance · Mar 4

CMS receives record comments on controversial Medicare Advantage payment proposal

Healthcare Dive · Mar 4

ASTP/ONC to prioritize interoperability in 2026

Healthcare Finance · Mar 4

CMS innovation center remains focused on mandatory models, officials say

Healthcare Dive · Mar 4

Grow Therapy scores $150M to build out enterprise partnerships with docs, employers

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 4

HCA Healthcare says all-time high inpatient capacity, ACA exchange attrition won't spoil 2026 volume growth

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 4

Papa rolls out new program for insurers called Papa Plus

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 4

FDA ramps up crackdown on GLP-1 drug compounding with fresh batch of 30 warning letters

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 4

A Look at the Intersection of SNAP and Medicaid as States Implement Medicaid Work Requirements

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Cigna appoints Brian Evanko as next CEO

Life Insurance International · Mar 4

Lawmakers, Health Groups Resist Their States’ Rural Health Fund Plans

KFF Health News · Mar 4

Despite Their Successes, Some Mobile Crisis Response Teams Are in Crisis

KFF Health News · Mar 4

Moderna Will Pay up to $2.25 Billion to Settle COVID Vaccine Patent Dispute

Claims Journal · Mar 4

Nearly Two-Thirds of HSA Holders Reported Using Accounts for Immediate Costs

PLANSPONSOR · Mar 3

The earliest effectuated enrollment drop-off data starts to trickle in...

ACA Signups · Mar 3

Quest Diagnostics launches Google-powered AI chatbot to help patients understand lab results

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Tennr takes aim at phone call bottlenecks as it builds out automation for patient referral process

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Former Optum CEO Heather Cianfrocco to depart UnitedHealth Group

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Longtime Cigna CEO David Cordani to retire, Brian Evanko tapped as successor

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Patients with multiple chronic diseases are a looming threat to health systems' financials: Vizient

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

State Medicaid budgets face $664B cut due to ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: study

Healthcare Dive · Mar 3

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Another leadership appointment within Elevance Health

Healthcare Finance · Mar 3

Analyzing Changes in Medicare Part D Enrollment for 2026

CMS set to suspend enrollment in Elevance Health's Medicare Advantage plans

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

CMS extends application deadline for new Medicaid drug pricing model

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Report: Most states investing in value-based care with Rural Health Transformation Program

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

In 1 state, large hospitals dominate 340B's net savings

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 3

Provider groups push to preserve some IT certification criteria, including AI ‘model cards’

Healthcare Dive · Mar 3

CMS threatens Elevance with Medicare Advantage sanctions

Healthcare Dive · Mar 3

Hasta los pacientes se sorprenden por los precios que sus aseguradoras están dispuestas a pagar, un costo que al final pagamos todos

KFF Health News · Mar 3

Brian Evanko to succeed David Cordani as CEO of Cigna

Healthcare Dive · Mar 3

Readers Lean On Congress To Solve Crises in Research and Rehab

KFF Health News · Mar 3

Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us

KFF Health News · Mar 3

EBRI Survey: 61% View HSA as Savings Account

Plan Adviser · Mar 2

How Do Health Expenditures Vary Across the Population?

Marsh Unveils Health Benefit Price Transparency Tool

Plan Adviser · Mar 2

CMS freezes enrollment in Elevance Medicare Advantage-Part D plans

Healthcare Finance · Mar 2

Marsh Launches Health Benefit Pricing Tool

PLANSPONSOR · Mar 2

Op-ed: Our patients deserve better safety reporting. AI could be the answer

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 2

DoseSpot, Arrive Health merge to combine prescribing tools with pharmacy, medical benefit data

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 2

State Medicaid budgets to weather $664B reduction through 2034 due to OBBBA: RAND

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 2

Kennedy adds 2 new members to CDC’s vaccine panel ahead of delayed meeting

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 2

AMA creates new maternity care coding system

Healthcare Dive · Mar 2

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. appoints two physicians to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Healthcare Finance · Mar 2

Elevance announces leadership changes

Healthcare Finance · Mar 2

Lake Nona Impact Forum: There can't be longevity without tech

Fierce Healthcare · Mar 2

Health and Health Care Experiences of Immigrant Parents and Their Children During the Second Trump Term

Constrained Budgets Lead States to Restrict HIV Drug Access Through Ryan White

Looking beyond AI implementation at HIMSS26

Healthcare Finance · Mar 2

Former Optum chief departs UnitedHealth

Healthcare Dive · Mar 2

UnitedHealth limits salary increases to 2% during restructuring – report

Life Insurance International · Mar 2

6 ways AI is finally tackling healthcare’s paper problem

Healthcare Dive · Mar 2

Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend.

KFF Health News · Mar 2

Families Defend Disability Services Amid Medicaid Cuts

KFF Health News · Mar 2

GLP-1s are changing benefits decisions. Here’s how health care decision-makers can stay in control.

Healthcare Dive · Mar 2

ByHeart Infant Botulism Outbreak Ends With 48 Babies Sickened

Claims Journal · Mar 2

The Mental Health Crisis is Changing — Here’s What Insurers Need to Know

Risk & Insurance · Mar 2

Alignment CEO John Kao offers measured response to proposed 2027 MA rates

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 28

Patrick Kennedy: Collab with MAHA is essential to address mental health crisis

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 28

Cigna's Evernorth quietly acquires hospital pharmacy CarepathRx

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 28

Walgreens debuts virtual weight management clinic with access to GLP-1 meds

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 28

Clover Health CEO said company sees opportunity in complex MA environment

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 28

ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More

KFF Health News · Feb 28

CMS posts claimed November 2025 Medicaid/CHIP enrollment report: 76.0M, down 3.4M since December 2024

ACA Signups · Feb 27

UHS eyes rising admissions targets this year despite headwinds

Healthcare Dive · Feb 27

Evernorth confirms full ownership of CarepathRx

Healthcare Finance · Feb 27

Elevance shuffles C-suite as top Carelon exec departs

Healthcare Dive · Feb 27

CDC Declares ByHeart Infant Botulism Outbreak Over, Probe Continues

Insurance Journal · Feb 27

After 2025's volumes shortfall, Universal Health Services says capacity, headcount investments will pay off in 2026

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

After delay, CDC vaccine panel sets new dates to discuss long COVID and mRNA shot safety

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

Health Gorilla urges court to toss lawsuit filed by Epic, health systems

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

Insurance groups say proposed flat Medicare Advantage rates fail to meet the moment

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

Teladoc Health reports slower growth, offers cautious 2026 outlook as it shifts telehealth model

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

CFO Mark Kaye to take the helm at Carelon in leadership shake-up at Elevance Health

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 27

HIMSS26: NYU Langone Health celebrates clinical success with patients

Healthcare Finance · Feb 27

How PBM reforms could push drugmakers into the pricing spotlight

Healthcare Dive · Feb 27

He Needs an Expensive Drug. A Copay Card Helped — Until It Didn’t.

KFF Health News · Feb 27

To Avoid Care Disruptions, Know When the Clock Runs Out on Your Prior Authorization

KFF Health News · Feb 27

What the Health? From KFF Health News: What About the State of Health?

KFF Health News · Feb 26

Two more states are about to jump ship onto their own ACA marketplaces

ACA Signups · Feb 26

Two more states are about to jump ship onto their own ACA exchanges

ACA Signups · Feb 26

More Employees Are Seeking Caregiver Benefits at Work

Carrier Management · Feb 26

Teladoc projects lower integrated care membership amid ACA subsidy lapse

Healthcare Dive · Feb 26

HHS defers $259.5 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota

Healthcare Finance · Feb 26

CMS unveils new initiatives aimed at cracking down on healthcare fraud

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 26

New Jersey final OEP summary: Tens of thousands forced to "Buy Down" to worse plans to mitigate GOP premium spikes

ACA Signups · Feb 26

How Will the Loss of Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Affect Older Adults?

15 states sue over new vaccine policy

Healthcare Finance · Feb 26

Trump administration halts over $259M in Medicaid funds to Minnesota

Healthcare Dive · Feb 26

Cientos de enfermeros estadounidenses dejan atrás el Estados Unidos de Trump y eligen trabajar en Canadá

KFF Health News · Feb 26

‘You Aren’t Trapped’: Hundreds of US Nurses Choose Canada Over Trump’s America

KFF Health News · Feb 26

‘Kind of Morbid’: Health Premiums Threaten Their Nest Egg. A Terminal Diagnosis May Spare It.

KFF Health News · Feb 26

Breaking: Trump regime cuts $260 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota & stops new durable medical equipment supplier enrollment nationally for 6 months to supposedly "combat fraud"

ACA Signups · Feb 25

Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health

Survey: Many rare disease patients struggle to navigate care

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

Hims & Hers bullish on growth prospects even as it faces increasing regulatory scrutiny

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

Medicare Advantage forced disenrollments rise as insurers exit markets: study

Healthcare Dive · Feb 25

ViVE 2026: Uber Health unveils self-booking option for riders

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

Low pay rates for Medicare's ACCESS model will pressure digital health margins: Capstone

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

ViVE 2026: GoodRx launches direct-to-employer platform aimed at lowering drug costs

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

15 states sue RFK Jr. and CDC, challenging new childhood vaccine recommendations

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

Inside Advocate Health’s ‘hospital room of the future’

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 25

New York secures more than $2.5 million from EmblemHealth over ghost networks

Healthcare Finance · Feb 25

Trump calls on Congress to codify Most-Favored-Nation framework

Healthcare Finance · Feb 25

Trump’s State of the Union trumpets healthcare greatest hits, but no new policies

Healthcare Dive · Feb 25

Michigan Health Care Provider Sued for Race Discrimination

Insurance Journal · Feb 25

How $50 billion can help transform rural healthcare

Healthcare Finance · Feb 25

Filling in the Gap in Federal Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood: State Responses

15 states sue HHS over changes to childhood vaccine schedule

Healthcare Dive · Feb 25

En batalla por fondos, demócratas denuncian falta de atención médica para detenidos por el ICE

KFF Health News · Feb 25

Democrats Decry Meager Medical Care for Detainees in Funding Fight

KFF Health News · Feb 25

Labcorp expands PathAI pact to roll out digital pathology platform in US

Healthcare Dive · Feb 25

Employers introducing more family health benefits, but employees don't always recognize them, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 24

CBO estimates Medicare Trust Fund will run out in 2040

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 24

Understanding Medicaid Home Care Amid CMS Focus on Potential Fraud and Abuse

Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker

Protected: The Mental Health Crisis is Changing — Here’s What Insurers Need to Know

Risk & Insurance · Feb 24

Opioid Overdose Deaths: National Trends and Variation by Demographics and States

Suicide Deaths: National Trends and Variation by Demographics and States

Alcohol Deaths: National Trends and Variation by Demographics and States

DOJ, Ohio lawsuit alleges OhioHealth 'forces' plans to include its hospitals

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 24

Home health and hospice provider Enhabit to go private in $1.1B deal

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 24

SCAN launches program to lean on Medicare Advantage brokers as member health navigators

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 24

Geisinger names Humana executive as president of health plan

Healthcare Finance · Feb 24

DOJ sues OhioHealth for alleged anticompetitive contracts

Healthcare Finance · Feb 24

HIMSS26 speaker imagines healthcare in 2035

Healthcare Finance · Feb 24

Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack

Insurance Journal · Feb 24

Medicare Advantage growth decelerates as insurers shed members for 2026

Healthcare Dive · Feb 24

Kaiser Permanente workers end monthlong strike in California, Hawaii

Healthcare Dive · Feb 24

Private equity firm to buy home health and hospice provider Enhabit in $1.1B deal

Healthcare Dive · Feb 24

GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ erases 12 years of solvency for Medicare trust fund: CBO

Healthcare Dive · Feb 24

Hospitals Fighting Measles Confront a Challenge: Few Doctors Have Seen It Before

KFF Health News · Feb 24

TrumpRx: What’s the Value for Customers?

Quiz – How Well Do You Understand Your Health Insurance?

Medicare Advantage Enrollment Grew by About 1 Million People, Mainly Due to Special Needs Plans

Justice Department sues OhioHealth over alleged anticompetitive insurer contracts

Healthcare Dive · Feb 23

CMS posts claimed November 2025 Medicare enrollment; over 51% now enrolled in Med Advantage

ACA Signups · Feb 23

Conn. bills propose expanding PTSD coverage, system study

Business Insurance · Feb 23

University of Mississippi Medical Center closes clinics amid ransomware attack

Healthcare Dive · Feb 23

Following Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling, Trump pivots to new temporary tariffs

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 23

Innovating from Within: Rethinking Nurse Orientation Assessments

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 23

Health Insurer Financial Performance in 2024

ViVE 2026: How to boost the number of women participating in clinical trials

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 23

4 AI capabilities every healthcare leader should prioritize in 2026

Healthcare Dive · Feb 23

New Orleans Brings Back the House Call, Sending Nurses To Visit Newborns and Moms

KFF Health News · Feb 23

As More Americans Embrace Anxiety Treatment, MAHA Derides Medications

KFF Health News · Feb 23

Payments for healthcare: How membership-style saves money

Healthcare Dive · Feb 23

Más personas toman medicamentos para tratar la ansiedad, aunque el gobierno critica su uso

KFF Health News · Feb 23

Estados rojos y azules buscan limitar el uso de la inteligencia artificial en seguros de salud. Trump quiere lo opuesto

KFF Health News · Feb 23

CHAI's AI oversight ambitions falter with scrapped AI labs

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 22

HIMSSCast: Behavioral science plays a role in Wegovy pill outcomes

Healthcare Finance · Feb 22

Omada expanding cardiometabolic care platform to cholesterol management

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 22

Journalists Explain Colorectal Cancer Risk and Federal Pullback on Georgia Disability Oversight

KFF Health News · Feb 21

Study: Forced Medicare Advantage disenrollments rise amid payer plan exits

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 20

Connecticut: Access Health CT signs up record number for 2026 thanks to expanded outreach & new state subsidies

ACA Signups · Feb 20

State Lawmakers Seek Restraints on Wage Garnishment for Medical Debt

KFF Health News · Feb 20

Trump’s Transparent Hospital Pricing Pays Off for Industry — But Not So Much for Patients

KFF Health News · Feb 20

Industry Voices—Scaling employer growth without physician-level visibility is a margin risk

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 20

Trump sets fresh 10% global tariff — and plans to increase further

Healthcare Dive · Feb 20

HIMSS26 to host Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium

Healthcare Finance · Feb 20

Walgreens to lay off hundreds of employees

Healthcare Dive · Feb 20

Alliance of companies will help accelerate $50 billion in rural health programs

Healthcare Finance · Feb 20

Amid CDC upheaval, key vaccine panel won't convene February meeting

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 20

Carrot teams up with Blueberry Pediatrics for on-demand telehealth access

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 20

Former Broker, Co-Defendant Sentenced to 20 Years in Fraudulent ACA Sign-Ups

Insurance Journal · Feb 20

What Newly Released Medicaid Data Do and Don’t Tell Us

To streamline workflows, listen to clinicians

Healthcare Finance · Feb 20

Supreme Court invalidates Trump tariffs based on emergency powers

Healthcare Dive · Feb 20

Digital health partnerships expected to be most important for insurers over next three years

Life Insurance International · Feb 20

CHS could slow pace of divestitures as it makes progress paying debt

Healthcare Dive · Feb 20

When Cyber Risk Becomes a Critical Risk in Health Care

Risk & Insurance · Feb 20

Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?

KFF Health News · Feb 20

When It Comes to Health Insurance, Federal Dollars Support More Than ACA Plans

KFF Health News · Feb 20

People Moves: Higginbotham Hires Ritter as Medical Director for Employee Benefits

Insurance Journal · Feb 20

RCM leaders cite payer behaviors, claims denials as major risks in 2026

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Health Care System Settles Forfeiture Case for $42.7M

Plan Adviser · Feb 19

Providence Health Settles Forfeiture Complaint for $42.7M

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 19

What the Health? From KFF Health News: Turnarounds and Shake-Ups

KFF Health News · Feb 19

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to take over as temporary CDC chief: media reports

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Community Health Systems wraps 2025 with narrow gains, flagging same-store volumes

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Withings expands concierge medicine footprint with MedStar Health collaboration

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Medicare Advantage enrollment hits 35.5M after another year of slow growth, CMS data show

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Hims & Hers eyes international growth with $1.15B Eucalyptus acquisition

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 19

Intrauterine Devices (IUDs): Access and Coverage in the U.S.

Healthcare real estate report confirms trend toward outpatient care

Healthcare Finance · Feb 19

Va. House passes bill to cover exacerbation of mental health conditions

Business Insurance · Feb 19

Telehealth use in primary care stabilizes: research

Healthcare Dive · Feb 19

Calculating network downtime's operational and financial consequences

Healthcare Finance · Feb 19

Veradigm cut 15% of its workforce in 2025

Healthcare Dive · Feb 19

Retirees’ Health Care Costs Far Outpace Social Security COLA

Plan Adviser · Feb 19

Are Employers Getting Access to PBM Claims Data?

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 19

An Arm and a Leg: Personal Finance Guru Faces Down an Insurance Denial

KFF Health News · Feb 19

Nevada Debuts Public Option Amid Tumultuous Federal Changes to Health Care

KFF Health News · Feb 19

Family premiums account for 10% of income in 19 states: Commonwealth Fund

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 18

Healthcare Costs Climb on Multiple Fronts, Pressuring Employers and Retirees in 2026

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 18

The building blocks behind measurement-based behavioral healthcare

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 18

Prime Healthcare Foundation acquires Maine health system

Healthcare Dive · Feb 18

Four health systems deploy AI to control spend

Healthcare Finance · Feb 18

GE HealthCare, BARDA ink $35M expansion to AI-enabled imaging deal

Healthcare Dive · Feb 18

Medicare Advantage growth slows

Healthcare Finance · Feb 18

Medicaid Managed Care Reporting and Transparency: Managed Care Program Annual Reports

Deploying AI 'allows doctors to be doctors' again

Healthcare Finance · Feb 18

FDA reverses course on Moderna’s flu vaccine

Healthcare Dive · Feb 18

Federal judge strikes down FTC rule expanding premerger reporting requirements

Healthcare Dive · Feb 18

BMS launches new Accident & Health division with five senior appointments

Reinsurance News · Feb 18

Red and Blue States Alike Want To Limit AI in Insurance. Trump Wants To Limit the States.

KFF Health News · Feb 18

Wyoming Wants To Make Its Five-Year Federal Rural Health Funding Last ‘Forever’

KFF Health News · Feb 18

UnitedHealth Group was the most profitable payer in a difficult 2025 for the industry

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 17

Ascension narrows operating loss to $139M halfway through its fiscal year

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 17

CommonSpirit's volume gains, efficiency initiatives fuel 'noticeable' quarterly performance bump

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 17

Humana’s CenterWell buys primary care provider MaxHealth

Healthcare Dive · Feb 17

Humana's CenterWell closes deal to buy primary care provider MaxHealth from Arsenal Capital Partners

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 17

Clinics sour on CMS after agency scraps 10-year primary care program only months in

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 17

The Mexico City Policy: An Explainer

HIMSS26: Former AMA President Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld gives keynote to kick off Physicians’ Forum

Healthcare Finance · Feb 17

Central Maine Healthcare acquired by Prime Healthcare Foundation

Healthcare Finance · Feb 17

Danaher to buy Masimo for $9.9B to boost diagnostics portfolio

Healthcare Dive · Feb 17

Amwell expects lower revenue in 2026

Healthcare Dive · Feb 17

Piloting new technology with a structured approach

Healthcare Finance · Feb 17

Ascension posts net profit as it looks to outpatient growth

Healthcare Dive · Feb 17

La respuesta del equipo de Trump a los aumentos de las primas de ACA: cobertura catastrófica

KFF Health News · Feb 17

Why every practice should simplify billing – and how

Healthcare Dive · Feb 17

Listen: Why Do I Need Prior Authorization?

KFF Health News · Feb 17

Trump Required Hospitals To Post Their Prices for Patients. Mostly It’s the Industry Using the Data.

KFF Health News · Feb 17

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid. (Part 3)

ACA Signups · Feb 16

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid. (Part 3)

ACA Signups · Feb 16

Humana’s CenterWell adds network of senior primary care centers

Healthcare Finance · Feb 16

HIMSS26: AdventHealth CEO to give keynote address at the Executive Summit

Healthcare Finance · Feb 16

Federal judge vacates FTC's expanded premerger notification requirements

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 16

Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker '26: Big Health nabs $24M; Talkiatry scores $210M

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 16

HIMSS26 session offers a prescription to end confusion

Healthcare Finance · Feb 16

HIMSSCast: 2026 could be the most challenging year yet for Medicare Advantage payers

Healthcare Finance · Feb 16

Nuevas reglas de trabajo de Medicaid podrían impactar más fuerte en adultos de mediana edad

KFF Health News · Feb 16

Payers sign pledge to join CMMI ACCESS Model

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 16

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid. (Part 2)

ACA Signups · Feb 16

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid. (Part 2)

ACA Signups · Feb 16

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid (Part 1)

ACA Signups · Feb 15

CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid (Part 1)

ACA Signups · Feb 15

El polémico plan de Alabama: usar robots para atención materna en zonas rurales

KFF Health News · Feb 15

Journalists Unpack Impact of ICE Arrests on Families and Caffeine’s Effect on Dementia Risk

KFF Health News · Feb 14

Payer AI company Anterior banks $40M funding round

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 14

Standout healthcare sector gains backstop better-than-expected January jobs report

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 14

Wolters Kluwer Health pushes deeper into agentic AI to tackle medication workflows

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 14

Op-ed: Experience-centered AI is the future of healthcare innovation

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 14

Kaiser Permanente, DoL reach settlement over mental health access

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

White-label telehealth provider, pharmacy sued over 'snake oil' compounded oral GLP-1

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

Chutes & Ladders—HHS shakes up leadership team; FAH makes key appointments

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

Trump administration restarts its efforts to pilot 340B rebates

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

ACA Subsidies Expired. Open Enrollment Ended. But It Will Still Take Awhile To Register the Results.

KFF Health News · Feb 13

A Look at the Medicaid Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program and Upcoming Changes and Impacts

TEFCA, Health Tech Ecosystem are complementary data sharing efforts: officials

Healthcare Dive · Feb 13

Revenue and payer-mix pressures continue to weigh on long-term sustainability

Healthcare Finance · Feb 13

HIMSS26 panel to explore healthcare cybersecurity strategies

Healthcare Finance · Feb 13

HHS elevates officials into Kennedy’s inner circle in advance of midterms

Healthcare Dive · Feb 13

Claims for younger adults are on the rise: UnitedHealthcare, HAC study

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

How to conduct health equity work amid politicization, threats

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 13

US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change

MIT Technology Review AI · Feb 13

Trump Team’s Planned ACA Rule Offers Its Answer to Rising Premium Costs: Catastrophic Coverage

KFF Health News · Feb 13

RFK Jr. Made Promises in Order To Become Health Secretary. He’s Broken Many of Them.

KFF Health News · Feb 13

Clinics Sour on CMS After Agency Scraps 10-Year Primary Care Program Only Months In

KFF Health News · Feb 13

Health Care Heartaches: Your Winning Health Policy Valentines

KFF Health News · Feb 13

Review Shows Diagnosis and Treatment Issues Drive Claims in Cardiology

Claims Journal · Feb 13

Good God. Trump's Council of Economic Advisors are either clueless or sycophants.

ACA Signups · Feb 12

Good God. Trump's Council of Economic Advisors are either clueless or sycophants.

ACA Signups · Feb 12

How Will Fee-Disclosure Rules Impact PBMs?

Plan Adviser · Feb 12

What the Health? From KFF Health News: New Flu Vax? FDA Says No Thanks

KFF Health News · Feb 12

Rural New York health system files for bankruptcy following state funding pause, emergency payroll assistance

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Talkiatry closes $210M series D to expand telepsychiatry services

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Strong patient engagement drives better women's health outcomes, Tia data show

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Maven, Color Health team up to offer oncofertility care for young adults

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Hospitals' operations wrap 2025 on solid footing, face payer mix, bad debt headwinds for 2026

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Tenet expects $250M hit from loss of ACA subsidies this year

Healthcare Dive · Feb 12

How the generative AI boom changes healthcare cybersecurity

Healthcare Dive · Feb 12

Demand for outpatient medical buildings growing: reports

Healthcare Dive · Feb 12

Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to 4,500 cities

Healthcare Finance · Feb 12

Strides toward interoperability, AI improve value-based care

Healthcare Finance · Feb 12

Lowering drug costs is on Republicans’ minds. Democrats say GOP policies don’t help.

Healthcare Dive · Feb 12

Important Correction to Yesterday's Post

ACA Signups · Feb 12

AI-assisted design aids in personalizing surgery

Healthcare Finance · Feb 12

Swedish Pet Insurance Startup Lassie Raises $75 Million in Series C to Expand Preventive Care Across Europe

Insurtech Insights · Feb 12

New KFF Poll Finds Trust in CDC Remains at Low Point Amid Falling Trust Among Democrats – These Findings and Others Included in New Polling Dashboard – The Monitor

Louisville Found PFAS in Drinking Water. The Trump Administration Wouldn’t Require Any Action.

KFF Health News · Feb 12

Alabama’s ‘Pretty Cool’ Plan for Robots in Maternity Care Sparks Debate

KFF Health News · Feb 12

Viewpoint: How Carriers Can Break the Cycle of Medical Abuse

Insurance Journal · Feb 12

Kaiser Reaches $30M Settlement With Labor Department Over Mental Healthcare Practices

Claims Journal · Feb 12

Gambling addiction startup Birches Health to expand offerings, provider training under new clinical VP

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Lantern taps AccessHope to expand cancer care platform

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 12

Attorneys Discuss Implications as PBMs Face Rebate Pass-Through Mandate, Fee-Disclosure Rules

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 11

Tenet Health outperforms in Q4, projects solid 2026 despite ACA exchange headwinds

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

The Growing Coverage Gap: Why Safety Nets Matter

Risk & Insurance · Feb 11

KFF Dashboard: Progress Toward Global Malaria Targets in PMI Countries

Hospital Spending Accounted for 40% of the Growth in National Health Spending Between 2022 and 2024

Hinge Health projects 2026 revenue to hit $732M buoyed by strong growth, AI investments

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

Bringing down costs in dermatology

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

500M records exchanged through TEFCA, federal health IT office boasts

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

The IRA Has Improved Coverage of Drugs Selected for Medicare Price Negotiation

In which major Insurer earnings reports confirm everything I've been warning about (with important update/correction)

ACA Signups · Feb 11

In which major Insurer earnings reports confirm everything I've been warning about

ACA Signups · Feb 11

Preparing providers and payers for interoperability mandates

Healthcare Finance · Feb 11

Humana's earnings fall on Medicare Advantage challenges

Healthcare Finance · Feb 11

Three 2026 focus areas for rural hospital cybersecurity

Healthcare Finance · Feb 11

With 417 rural hospitals at risk of closing, Rural Health Transformation funds may be too little, too late, report warns

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

Humana posts $796M loss in Q4 as elevated Medicare Advantage costs continue

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard

KFF Health News · Feb 11

End of Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Puts Tribal Health Lifeline at Risk

KFF Health News · Feb 11

CMS proposes scrapping standardised ACA plans and more broker oversight

Life Insurance International · Feb 11

Healthcare Dealmakers—OpenAI's health startup pickup, RWJBarnabas Health acquiring Englewood Health and more

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

Oscar posts $443M loss in 2025, but CEO says company is poised for 2026 profitability

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 11

Kaiser to Pay $28M in Mental Health Care Settlement With DOL

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 10

Washington: WA HealthPlan Finder's preliminary 2026 report displays both the damage from ePTC expiration and the power of Premium Alignment

ACA Signups · Feb 10

Doximity CEO bullish on winning the AI market in 2026 as it rolls out physician-led AI review

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Kaiser Permanente strike grows as pharmacy, lab workers join picket lines

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Mental health startups chosen for One Mind Accelerator

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

NYC's largest nurse strike: Deals for Montefiore, Mount Sinai, but no movement with NewYork-Presbyterian

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Care navigation startup Garner Health scores $118M series D at $1.35B valuation

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Solace Health raises $130M series C for advocacy platform

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

House Republicans subpoena 8 insurers over ACA fraud protection measures

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

CVS Health CEO Joyner says 'disappointing' 2027 MA rate notice fails to match utilization trends

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Pennsylvania: ~18% of 2025 enrollees forced to drop coverage already due to GOP failing to extend tax credits

ACA Signups · Feb 10

Examining the Potential Impact of Medicare’s New WISeR Model

CMS to discontinue limits on ACA plan options

Healthcare Finance · Feb 10

Cigna to cut 2,000 jobs

Healthcare Finance · Feb 10

Engaging clinicians builds trust in new technology

Healthcare Finance · Feb 10

Obamacare: el impacto de los costos en las inscripciones no se conocerá hasta dentro de varios meses

KFF Health News · Feb 10

Majority of Striking New York Nurses Announce Tentative Deal With Hospitals

Insurance Journal · Feb 10

Trabajadores de salud pública renuncian antes de ir a Guantánamo

KFF Health News · Feb 10

La consulta con tu próximo médico de atención primaria podría ser solo virtual y agendada a través de IA

KFF Health News · Feb 10

US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’

KFF Health News · Feb 10

Obamacare Sign-Ups Drop, but the Extent Won’t Be Clear for Months

KFF Health News · Feb 10

Kaiser Permanente closes 2025 with 1.1% operating margin, $9.3B bottom line

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

CMS plans to roll back limits on non-standard ACA plan options

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Fierce Healthcare Layoff Tracker—Cigna to eliminate 2,000 jobs; Unite Us reduces workforce

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 10

Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions

Maine: Preliminary 2026 Open Enrollment Data Shows Rising Affordability Challenges for Mainers' Health Coverage

ACA Signups · Feb 9

Op-ed: Health insurance CEOs told Congress they want to lower costs. Providers have heard this before—and Congress has, too

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

Family health provider Nest Health launches in-home prenatal services

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

Surrounded in Care: How Accredo’s Specialty Team Helps Patients Navigate Rare Conditions

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

When Getting There Matters: The Role of Transportation in Critical Care

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

Hims retreats from weight loss pill launch as Novo, FDA pressure mounts

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

What to Know About Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Federal Efforts at Regulation

Optum introduces AI-powered digital prior authorization

Healthcare Finance · Feb 9

HHS drops controversial 340B rebate pilot

Healthcare Finance · Feb 9

Novo Says It’s Suing Hims to Halt Obesity Drug Copycats

Claims Journal · Feb 9

In which Dr. Oz once again proves himself to be a gaslighting, disingenuous grifter.

ACA Signups · Feb 9

Creating a secure, more engaging healthcare experience

Healthcare Finance · Feb 9

Withdrawal of telehealth services by insurers will lead to increased churn

Life Insurance International · Feb 9

The Era of 'Coding Intensity' Is Ending. The Era of 'Defensible Accuracy' Is Here.

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

Aledade adds 700 providers to value-based care network amid federal policy tailwinds

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 9

The Public’s Views on the ACA Tracker

HIMSSCast: New HOPE reporting requirements for hospice care

Healthcare Finance · Feb 9

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

KFF Health News · Feb 9

Watch: Is MAHA the New MAGA?

KFF Health News · Feb 9

This Ballad Hospital, Flooded by Hurricane Helene, Will Be Rebuilt for $44M in a Flood Plain

KFF Health News · Feb 9

Journalists Describe Drivers of High Health Costs and Spell Out the Science of Protein

KFF Health News · Feb 7

MultiCare agrees to $3.7M settlement over allegations it knowingly allowed unnecessary surgeries

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 7

Virtual diabetes prevention programs secure Medicare coverage

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Employers, pharmacists cheer as Congress finally passes PBM reform

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Molina Healthcare's stocks fall as company plans exit from Medicare Advantage

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Newsom Tries To Thread Needle on Immigrant Health as Ambitions Turn National

KFF Health News · Feb 6

Epic's AI scribe goes live as EHR giant touts strong adoption of built-in AI features

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Infinitus launches agentic AI support for health plans

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

FDA's Makary pledges crackdown on mass marketing of 'illegal copycat drugs' in wake of Hims' Wegovy pill push

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

California AG sues Rady Children's Health over halted gender-affirming care services

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

IT to fuel hospital supply chain price inflation as pharmacy growth softens: Vizient

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Centene reports $1.1B loss in Q4 as elevated medical costs continue to strain finances

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Following legal setbacks, HHS agrees to toss 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

How community-powered trust accelerates D-SNP enrollment growth

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Small volume, big cost impact from psychotherapeutic, neurological drugs

Business Insurance · Feb 6

Centene reports $1.1 billion loss in Q4, though revenue climbed

Healthcare Finance · Feb 6

TrumpRx gets official launch

Healthcare Finance · Feb 6

Comparing States’ Rural Health Fund Allotments to Medicaid Spending Cuts Can be Misleading

Con ICE usando datos de Medicaid, hospitales y estados están en medio de una encrucijada: informar o no a sus pacientes inmigrantes

KFF Health News · Feb 6

Congress Passes PBM Price Disclosure Measures

Plan Adviser · Feb 6

Aetna rolls out new digital member onboarding experience

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

KFF Polling on Health Information and Trust

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Trust in the CDC and Views of Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes

Poll: Trust and Confidence in the CDC Remain at Low Point After Changes to Recommended Childhood Vaccines; More Say the Changes Will Hurt than Help Children’s Health

Effective but Underprescribed: HIV Prevention Meds Aren’t Reaching Enough People

KFF Health News · Feb 6

With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients

KFF Health News · Feb 6

CMS posts Medicaid expansion enrollment as of June 2025: 20.4 million nationally

ACA Signups · Feb 6

Study Ties Particle Pollution From Wildfire Smoke to 24K US Deaths Per Year

Claims Journal · Feb 6

Assignment of Benefits Bill Passes Washington Senate

Insurance Journal · Feb 6

Him & Hers plans to offer cheaper version of Wegovy pill, prompting Novo Nordisk to threaten legal action

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

TrumpRx, US government's cash-pay drug purchasing portal, primed for launch

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 6

Hims & Hers to sell Grail’s Galleri multi-cancer blood test via its digital health platform

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 5

CMS estimates 14.3M Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in an ACO for 2026

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 5

Cigna CEO Cordani says Express Scripts' new PBM model aligns with reforms, FTC settlement

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 5

PBM Disclosure Push Intensifies As Congress Acts

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 5

Rising Healthcare Costs Threaten Retirement Income

401k Specialist · Feb 5

Illinois: Get Covered IL announces special enrollment period for auto-renewed enrollees

ACA Signups · Feb 5

Illinois: Get Covered IL announces special enrollment period for auto-renewed enrollees

ACA Signups · Feb 5

Litigation Involving Reproductive Health and Rights in the Federal Courts

What the Health? From KFF Health News: HHS Gets Funding, But How Will Trump Spend It?

KFF Health News · Feb 5

Potential Impacts of Trump Administration H-1B Visa Policies on the Health Care and Social Assistance Industries

The other shoe to drop: How many enrollees were forced to "buy down" to a worse plan with higher out of pocket costs?

ACA Signups · Feb 5

Kansas medical cannabis bill introduced

Business Insurance · Feb 5

Cigna reports better-than-expected Q4 financial results

Healthcare Finance · Feb 5

How theranostics personalizes cancer treatment

Healthcare Finance · Feb 5

FTC reaches 'landmark settlement' with Cigna's Express Scripts

Healthcare Finance · Feb 5

Workforce Absence Landscape Faced Regulatory Rollbacks and Rising Employee Expectations in 2025

Risk & Insurance · Feb 5

Newsom ajusta su discurso sobre la salud de inmigrantes enfocado en una posible candidatura presidencial

KFF Health News · Feb 5

ACA Marketplace Enrollment is Down in 2026—But All of the Data Isn’t in Yet

Poison at Play: Unsafe Levels of Lead Found in Half of New Orleans Playgrounds

KFF Health News · Feb 5

Newsom Walks Thin Line on Immigrant Health as He Eyes Presidential Bid

KFF Health News · Feb 5

(sigh) Stick a fork in it? ACA subsidy negotiations appear to be dead

ACA Signups · Feb 5

Community Health Systems closes $600M Tennessee hospital sale to VUMC

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

HHS plans to invest $100M to support addiction recovery and address homelessness

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

SCAN adds 127K members in Medicare annual enrollment window

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Women's health clinic Midi Health closes $100M series D as it aims to scale a national healthcare company

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Humana taps Google Cloud for new Agent Assist AI tool

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Carbon Health files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief with more than $100M in debt

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Kaiser Permanente, Renown Health launch northern Nevada joint venture

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Patients cite prior authorization as the biggest healthcare navigation burden: KFF

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Trump signs $1.2T spending package that funds HHS, enacts PBM reforms, telehealth and hospital-at-home measures

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

NIH turmoil takes center stage as director acknowledges no vaccine-autism link

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Healthcare bankruptcies declined in 2025, though providers remain hard-pressed

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Chamber gets a $60M jolt to power value-based care for cardiology practices

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

A closer look at Elevance Health’s AI strategy

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Optum unveils 2 new AI-powered tools for digital prior authorization

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

FTC, Express Scripts reach settlement in insulin pricing case

Fierce Healthcare · Feb 4

Maryland wraps up 2026 Open Enrollment Period up 3.4% y/y thanks to backfilling ~60% of lost federal tax credits (updated)

ACA Signups · Feb 4

Community Health Center Patients, Financing, and Services

Global Health Funding in the FY 2026 National Security, Department of State and Related Programs (NSRP) Conference Bill & Explanatory Statement

Global Health Funding in the FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) Conference Bill & Accompanying Report

Court narrows Medicare double-damages claims in comp disputes

Business Insurance · Feb 4

Express Scripts reaches ‘landmark’ settlement with FTC in insulin suit

Healthcare Dive · Feb 4

Cigna Settles FTC Insulin Case, Commits to Drug Pricing Overhaul

Claims Journal · Feb 4

Funding bill extends telehealth, enacts PBM reform

Healthcare Finance · Feb 4

One-quarter of Medicaid doctors don’t actually treat Medicaid patients: study

Healthcare Dive · Feb 4

Trump signs funding bill with PBM reforms, hospital-at-home and telehealth extensions

Healthcare Dive · Feb 4

Former Ole Miss Standout Player Convicted in $194M Medicare, CHAMPVA Fraud

Insurance Journal · Feb 4

KLAS: Clinical documentation reshapes time, revenue and how care is delivered

Healthcare Finance · Feb 4

Genetic testing takes greater share of Medicare Part B test spending: OIG

Healthcare Dive · Feb 4

AI agents need humans in the loop

Healthcare Finance · Feb 4

CMS presses ahead on accelerated Medicare Advantage audits

Healthcare Dive · Feb 4

When the Doctor Needs a Checkup

KFF Health News · Feb 4

Listen: Many Tents Are Gone, but Washington’s Homeless — And Their Health Problems — Aren’t

KFF Health News · Feb 4

Global COVID-19 Tracker

KFF Tracker: America First MOU Bilateral Global Health Agreements

Tracking Key HHS Public Health Policy Actions Under the Trump Administration

Minnesota: MNsure wraps up 2026 Open Enrollment w/139K QHPs, down 8.1% y/y; 50% increase in cancellations, 112% increase in "buying down"

ACA Signups · Feb 3

Minnesota: MNsure wraps up 2026 Open Enrollment w/139K QHPs, down 8.1% y/y; 50% increase in cancellations, 112% increase in "buying down"

ACA Signups · Feb 3

Prices rise at surgery centers acquired by Optum: study

Healthcare Dive · Feb 3

Tenet gets $1.9 billion to resume full ownership of Conifer Health Solutions

Healthcare Finance · Feb 3

Developing pilots to tackle digital health's deployment gap

Healthcare Finance · Feb 3

Reframing patient engagement to what matters most

Healthcare Finance · Feb 3

Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’

KFF Health News · Feb 3

Medicare Advantage prior authorization requests rise in 2024: report

Healthcare Dive · Feb 3

Humana rolls out AI support tool for call centers

Healthcare Dive · Feb 3

California wraps up 2026 Open Enrollment w/1.93M plan selections, down 2.6%...& avg. premiums are up 35% even w/state subsidies

ACA Signups · Feb 3

NIH Grant Disruptions Slow Down Breast Cancer Research

KFF Health News · Feb 3

If You’re Pregnant and Uninsured, Medicaid Might Be Your Answer

KFF Health News · Feb 3

Si estás embarazada y no tienes seguro de salud, Medicaid podría ser la solución

KFF Health News · Feb 3

So you missed the Open Enrollment deadline. Now what?

ACA Signups · Feb 2

DOL Proposal Targets PBM Disclosure Information

PLANSPONSOR · Feb 2

State Policies on Abortion Coverage in Medicaid, Private Insurance, and ACA Exchange Plans in 2025

State Policies on Abortion Coverage in Medicaid, Private Insurance, and ACA Exchange Plans in 2025

Telehealth flexibilities, hospital-at-home waivers lapse amid partial government shutdown

Healthcare Dive · Feb 2

Healthcare bankruptcies fall in 2025, but providers still face headwinds: report

Healthcare Dive · Feb 2

Poll: People View Prior Authorization as Greatest Burden in Navigating the Health System

KFF Health Tracking Poll: Prior Authorizations Rank as Public’s Biggest Burden When Getting Health Care

Your Next Primary Care Doctor Could Be Online Only, Accessed Through an AI Tool

KFF Health News · Feb 2

It’s 2026 and You’re Uninsured. Now What?

KFF Health News · Feb 2

When Health Insurance Costs More Than the Mortgage

KFF Health News · Feb 2

Cuando el seguro médico cuesta más que la hipoteca

KFF Health News · Feb 2

Choose Your Own Adventure: How much will effectuated enrollment drop this year?

ACA Signups · Jan 31

CMS posts claimed October 2025 Medicaid/CHIP enrollment report: 76.8M, down 2.7M since December 2024

ACA Signups · Jan 30

Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Data and Policies

Recent Trends in GLP-1 Use and Spending in Medicare

A Closer Look at Nebraska, the First State Planning to Implement a Medicaid Work Requirement

Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker

New Jersey: 81% fewer enrollees paying $10 or less; 82% more enrollees paying $100 or more

ACA Signups · Jan 29

Potential Impact of the Federal Pause on Immigrant Visas From 75 Countries on the U.S. Health Care Workforce

NJ DOBI encourages residents to enroll via GetCovered NJ by midnight Saturday

ACA Signups · Jan 29

Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs

Breaking: CMS posts semifinal 2026 Open Enrollment report: 23.0M QHPs, down "only" 1.3M...

ACA Signups · Jan 29

Sen. Moreno's "final offer" is either a sick joke or an AI-generated dumpster fire. Take your pick.

ACA Signups · Jan 28