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1+ hour, 3+ min ago (326+ words) Question: I did not switch my insurance by the December 7 deadline and that may have been a mistake. What chance for change do I have? Answer: The Annual Open Enrollment has ended. There are 20 Special Enrollment Periods (SEP) that are available to individuals that meet those different SEP criteria. I am going to focus on two opportunities for switching plans, EPIC (Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage) & those whose plan is no longer offered in 2026. EPIC has NO set enrollment period which allows you to enrollment at any time. EPIC uses your income figures to determine your eligibility, so you will need to have detailed information about your income. EPIC will always be secondary to your Part D insurance coverage. If you have a retiree plan or VA coverage, EPIC will not help you pay for prescriptions. EPIC will only be secondary…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (1955+ words) Health care " and how much it costs " is scary. But you're not alone with this stuff, and knowledge is power. "An Arm and a Leg" is a podcast about these issues, and is co-produced by KFF Health News. By Dan Weissmann December 15, 2025 As health insurance premiums skyrocket in both employer-based plans and Affordable Care Act marketplaces, millions face worse choices than ever during this open enrollment. The team behind "An Arm and a Leg" examines their own limited options, walking through how they approached reading the fine print to weed out the worst choices " and potentially save thousands of dollars. Plus, KFF Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby explains what could happen if Congress changes course and extends the enhanced premium tax credits for Obamacare enrollees that are due to expire at the end of the year. And a listener…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago (1035+ words) ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCSC " Get Free Report) CFO Stephen Jones sold 5,020 shares of ScanSource stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $42.30, for a total transaction of $212,346.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 83,326 shares [] [ScanSource logo]ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCSC " Get Free Report) CFO Stephen Jones sold 5,020 shares of ScanSource stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $42.30, for a total transaction of $212,346.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 83,326 shares in the company, valued at $3,524,689.80. This trade represents a 5.68% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Shares of NASDAQ SCSC opened at $41.92 on Monday....

2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1397+ words) North Carolina Treasurer Brad Briner has made waves during his first year in office among state employees, who will see a sharp uptick in their health insurance premiums starting next month." Briner says the increase is necessary to address a shortfall in the North Carolina State Health Plan he found when he arrived. Last year, Dale Folwell, the treasurer before Briner, told the plan's trustees that if current trends continued, that deficit would be about a half billion dollars in 2026 and perhaps as large as a billion dollars in 2027. Briner took a different tack this year, ending some programs that had been championed by Folwell. Instead of keeping monthly premiums flat, as Folwell had, Briner raised premiums for the roughly 750,000 state employees, retirees and their family members who are the beneficiaries." Briner told the State Health Plan Board of Trustees…...

10+ hour, 21+ min ago (671+ words) A 36-year-old executive, Yatin Gupta, is re-evaluating his life insurance needs, considering coverage until age 80. However, experts advise aligning the term plan duration with the period his dependents will require financial support, not necessarily the longest available option. The focus should be on meeting financial goals and ensuring adequate retirement planning. Yatin Gupta, 36, is a healthy corporate executive, whose two children are nearly 3 and 1 year old Since their birth, he has been reconsidering his life insurance needs, particularly raising the sum assured and policy term, given his growing financial responsibilities An insurance agent recommended a plan with coverage up to age 80, while other options extend till 60 or 70 Gupta feels it makes sense to choose the longest possible duration, given the uncertainty in life and the higher cost of buying a new policy later He wonders what is the ideal duration…...

10+ hour, 27+ min ago (387+ words) Explore strategies for creating inclusive health insurance that effectively supports the diverse needs of people with disabilities in India....

10+ hour, 56+ min ago (71+ words) The Expiration of Subsidies The Impact on Marketplace Coverage Enrollment Deadline: Monday, January 1 For those who want to secure coverage that starts on January 1, the deadline to enroll in a health insurance plan is Monday. This means that individuals and families must act quickly to select a plan and complete the enrollment process. To make this process easier, we recommend the following steps: " Based on insights from marketwatch.com...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago (276+ words) Remember when Americans were told that the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) would lower health care costs and that if you liked your doctor, you could keep her? How things have changed over the past 15 years. Health care costs continue to rise faster Health care costs continue to rise faster than inflation and millions of Americans have discovered that their health insurance plans don't cover their chosen physician. That's not a huge amount, but the GAO investigation went deeper. It found that in 2023, there were 29,000 duplicate Social Security numbers, and in 2024, there were 68,000 duplicates listed in the federal exchange. In other words, in a two-year period, there were nearly 100,000 fake applicants who received taxpayer subsidies. Also, the GAO discovered that when insurance brokers submitted incorrect or false Social Security numbers for applicants, the federal Center for Medicare and…...

15+ hour, 51+ min ago (221+ words) Mastercard has teamed up with TerraPay to enable contactless payments for digital wallets across its global acceptance network. This will allow users to make near-field communication (NFC) payments at more than 150 million Mastercard acceptance locations worldwide. Wallet providers will also gain access to advanced infrastructure and technology jointly delivered by both companies. TerraPay said the integration will support faster go-to-market while simplifying the launch process through Xend, its global payment interoperability platform. Together, we're bringing true payment interoperability to wallets globally, enabling them to pay at millions of acceptance points and empowering people everywhere to move and pay safely, instantly, and without borders," said Ambar Sur, Founder & CEO, TerraPay. "At Mastercard, we are enabling innovation and global reach for digital wallets, which serve as important drivers of financial inclusion. Collaborations with key ecosystem players like Terrapay play a key role…...

18+ hour, 14+ min ago (1735+ words) In communities with competing hospitals, both Fort Collins hospitals reported positive income, both Greeley hospitals reported losses, and just one of the two hospitals in Longmont and Loveland reported positive net income. UCHealth Greeley saw large increases in patient counts, even higher than the peak of the pandemic. So did UCHealth Longs Peak in Longmont and UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital also saw increased patient counts over the five-year period of the utilization summary. An industry under fire, or on fire The Medicaid Hospital Provider Fee reimbursed hospitals $3 billion in 2023 for treatment of low-income Coloradans, the CHA said. It also paid $476 million for uninsured patient care and $148 million for Medicaid administration expenses. The CHA noted that when 575,000 Coloradans lost Medicaid coverage as the COVID-19 pandemic wound down, uninsured visits to hospitals increased 40%." Numerous…...