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Affordable Care Act insurance costs to rise steeply again in WA
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (605+ words) OLYMPIA, WA – A quarter million Washingtonians who get their insurance through the state’s exchange under the Affordable Care Act face another year of double-digit rate increases. Health insurance rates will rise an average of 22.2% starting Jan. 1, Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer…...
Teachers’ medical claims will go unpaid if districts refuse to pay benefit trust
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1676+ words) BOISE, ID – School districts are not being asked. They are being told. Pay their share of the $13 million Idaho School Benefit Trust shortfall, or their employees and dependents will be left with unpaid medical claims and the Idaho Department of…...
Idaho’s Medicaid work requirements start in January. Here’s how they will work.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (680+ words) BOISE, ID – In about four months, low-income Idahoans on Medicaid expansion will need to prove they are meeting new work requirements to remain on the public assistance program. The new rules — made largely by the federal government — require people to…...
If Idaho insurer met hospital’s pay raise, state employees’ costs would rise, official says
4+ week, 11+ hour ago (776+ words) BOISE, ID – A new working group of state lawmakers tasked with probing the practices of health insurers is laying out its goals. At its first meeting, members of the Idaho Legislature’s Health Insurers Working Group lobbed questions for nearly an…...
MultiCare, Premera reach deal to keep coverage for over 100K WA patients
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (480+ words) OLYMPIA, WA – MultiCare, which operates more than a dozen hospitals in Washington, has agreed to keep charging Premera Blue Cross insurance customers in-network rates after months of negotiations that threatened their coverage. The hospital system and insurer are still hashing…...
Obamacare enrollment declines in 49 states
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (548+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The lone exception was New Mexico, the only state…...
Health insurance premiums rival mortgage costs as 2027 could see huge rate hikes
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (571+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. – The total cost of employer-sponsored family health insurance now exceeds the median monthly mortgage payment for recent homebuyers, but employers cover most of that insurance bill. The average employer-sponsored family plan cost $26,993 in 2025, according to KFF’s latest annual survey....
GAO says fraud risk high in $1.1T of state-run federal programs
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (574+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty federal programs that route nearly $1.1 trillion through state governments – including Medicaid, SNAP and disaster relief – are vulnerable to fraud because of how the money is distributed, the Government Accountability Office reports. The money rarely goes straight from Washington…...
Idaho’s strict Medicaid work requirements to start next year. Most meet the rules, official says.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (596+ words) BOISE, ID – Idaho state health officials plan to start implementing work requirements for people on Medicaid expansion starting next year. Idaho Republican lawmakers and Gov. Brad Little in April adopted the work requirements from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful…...
Insurance trust has run out of money, and Idaho schools have to pay the debt
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (883+ words) BOISE, ID – An insurance trust that more than 100 school districts and charters rely on has depleted its reserve funds, and the trust’s manager informed school leaders they are responsible for covering the shortfall. The trust’s benefit manager, Debbie Hainke, sent…...