6+ hour, 19+ min ago   (268+ words) Jan. 21 (UPI) -- UnitedHealth Group officials on Wednesday said the health insurer will return the profits earned on policies obtained via the Affordable Care Act marketplace aka Obamacare. UnitedHealth Group is the largest health insurer in the United States, but its…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (401+ words) Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The end of temporary subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance policies is raising rates and causing many to lower their coverage or forgo it as open enrollment nears its end. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services run…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (353+ words) Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Insurance premiums are set to rise exponentially for Americans who have bought their health care policies through an Affordable Care Act exchange because Congress failed to extend subsidies for them. Without the extension of the subsidies, people who…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1373+ words) Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The deadline is approaching for Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits and failing to do so is expected to cost about 4 million people their coverage over the next decade. U.S. Congress has until Dec....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (395+ words) Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open. Some of the premium increases can be attributed to an…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (465+ words) The cost of employer-provided health insurance has surged for a third straight year, with the annual cost of a family plan approaching $27,000, a new survey from the nonprofit KFF indicates. That's the average one-year premium cost shared by one family…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (503+ words) Sept. 30 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has secured a deal with drugmaker Pfizer to lower its prescription prices. The White House also announced a new direct-to-consumer website to sell medications at discounted rates, calling it TrumpRX, the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (638+ words) More people appear to die in emergency rooms after hospitals have been bought by private equity firms, a new study says. About 13% more deaths occur among Medicare patients in the emergency rooms of hospitals after their acquisition by private equity,…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (255+ words) July 24 (UPI) -- UnitedHealth Group said Thursday it is facing Department of Justice investigations over its Medicare billing practices. UnitedHealth Group said in a statement on its website that it reached out to the DOJ after seeing media reports about investigations…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1273+ words) July 15 (UPI) -- The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law July 4 will cut government spending on health care by more than $1 trillion over the next decade. Because the final version of the legislation moved swiftly through…...