Impact of More Primary Care Visits on Commercial Health Care Costs | AJMC
More frequent routine primary care visits for certain higher-risk commercially insured adults are associated with lower net population-level health care costs.| www.ajmc.com
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” to discuss how the government shutdown is affecting food benefits and the help many Americans get to offset their health insurance premiums.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
Enhanced Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies have emerged as a flash point in the congressional standoff over the federal government shutdown. Republicans point to what they characterize as increasing amounts of fraud as a reason to hold up the subsidies. But there are two sides to the story.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
The Trump administration says it’s developing a digital tool to help people prove they’re meeting new Medicaid work requirements. KFF Health News talked to officials from the two states running pilot programs and found little evidence of new — or effective — technology.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
KFF data shows that 2025 marked the first time in two decades that the annual cost of covering a family of four rose by 6% or more for three consecutive years.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
More frequent routine primary care visits for certain higher-risk commercially insured adults are associated with lower net population-level health care costs.| www.ajmc.com
Experts discuss what the loss of Obamacare subsidies means to patients and costs within the ACA insurance marketplace.| Tradeoffs
A new survey report from the International Foundation reveals increased U.S. employer spending on cancer/oncology care as well as common steerage techniques used to contain costs. The post Cancer Care Spend Is on the Rise for U.S. Employers appeared first on Word on Benefits.| Word on Benefits
Federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are set to shrink next year. Many shoppers are expected to be priced out, leaving those who stay with higher premiums. The dynamic that threatens to leave markets with fewer and more expensive options as insurers exit, too. How did we get here? The post Obamacare Premiums Are About to Soar. How’d We Get Here? appeared first on Tradeoffs.| Tradeoffs
A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s landmark health legislation, as the program awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress.| AP News
La región es una de las más pobres del estado. En el condado de Alamosa, 2 de cada 5 residentes están inscritos en Health First Colorado, el programa estatal de Medicaid.| KFF Health News
The state is using an old source of funding to pay for a new money crunch: assisting out-of-state patients with the costs associated with abortion.| KFF Health News
House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”| AP News
About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed. Coverage could be at risk in the 40 states that have expanded Medicaid.| KFF Health News
In their ongoing quest to lower prescription drug prices, some states are forcing drugmakers to continue to sell cheaper medications to thousands of pharmacies through a federal drug-discount program.| Stateline
The Medicaid “unwinding” led to fears that the number of people without insurance would spike. But it also coincided with moves in more than a dozen states to expand health coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women and the incarcerated.| Stateline
