1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (568+ words) The health insurance landscape has changed dramatically since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law. Prior to 2010, if you had a pre-existing condition, insurance companies would likely deny you coverage. The ACA protects against these denials, but in…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1096+ words) Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it was time to renew her coverage under Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid. Angelica helped Barahona, 41, schedule an appointment…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (602+ words) This story has been updated to reflect new information. Fred Kency practiced a better standard of care in the midst of war in Djibouti than he has been able to in Mississippi. Kency is an emergency room physician at Mississippi…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (530+ words) Medigap insurers use lookback periods of two to five years for cancer history, and one insurer denied a four-year cancer survivor for being one year short. After the six-month federal guaranteed-issue window closes at 65, insurers can reject Medigap applicants based…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (708+ words) There’s no avoiding it: The U.S. is rapidly aging. In 2025, a record-breaking number of Americans, 4.18 million to be exact, turned 65 years old, according to Milliman (1). For many people, this milestone means they’re either approaching their Social Security claim, preparing for…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (420+ words) More than a quarter of Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals ended the past fiscal year in the red as they reckoned with an aging patient population, rising costs and dwindling payments from government programs. Rural hospitals in Pennsylvania and around the nation…...