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St. Paul's projected $26 M budget gap for 2027 largest in recent memory
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (1096+ words) As the St. Paul mayor's office patches together an especially challenging budget proposal for 2027, could a projected $26 million budget gulf be resolved by municipal lay-offs, service cuts, levy hikes and other fiscal austerity? "All options are on the table," said…...
Minnesota Commerce Department kicks unlicensed insurance seller out of state
8+ mon, 1+ day ago (275+ words) After finding that an unlicensed company was selling "unauthorized and deceptive health coverage" to Minnesotans, the Minnesota Department of Commerce's Enforcement Division has settled with the company, requiring it to leave the state's insurance market. The settlement agreement with Strategic…...
Trump unveils deal with Regeneron to lower drug prices as part of most-favored-nation initiative
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (685+ words) President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a deal with drugmaker Regeneron to lower the cost of its pharmaceutical products as part of the White House's signature drug pricing initiative. The deal involves Regeneron lowering the prices of all its current…...
MN paid family medical leave will leverage data, selfies to fight fraud
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (808+ words) Officials building Minnesota's paid family and medical leave program set to launch Jan. 1 say they're confident that built-in fraud prevention measures will prevent widespread abuse of the new benefit. More than 130, 000 people are expected to use the new benefit in…...
State attorney general asks public input on deal to merge Allina Health with California company
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (235+ words) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is asking for public input on a proposed deal that would merge Minneapolis-based Allina Health with one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country. California-based Sutter Health and Allina announced the intended merger…...
Road to ending $243 M Medicaid pause could be "quite long, MN official says
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (786+ words) Weeks after the Trump administration approved Minnesota's plan to address Medicaid fraud, it's still unclear when the federal government will restore access to the quarter-billion dollars it is withholding from the state. Minnesota continues to reimburse providers for health care…...
Feds approve state efforts to meet anti-fraud requirements on Medicaid
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (776+ words) Trump administration officials have approved a Minnesota Department of Human Services plan to address fraud in state programs. It should free up hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding that the federal government moved to temporarily withhold. The Centers for Medicare…...
Victims of Woodbury dentist first to receive restitution from new state account
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (420+ words) Victims of a Woodbury dentist who went bankrupt after continuing to practice without a license will be among the first consumers in the state to receive restitution under a new state fund. The restitution for more than 300 victims could run…...
What Americans are giving up to afford ACA health insurance, according to a new poll
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (665+ words) Sometimes I don't even take my medicine," said the 48-year-old truck dispatcher in Orlando, Florida. It's so much with insurance, it's crazy." For Brown and others, those spiking costs are having real impacts on daily life. Of the 1, 117 Americans surveyed…...
End of enhanced Obamacare subsidies puts tribal health lifeline at risk
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (982+ words) By Katheryn Houghton, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in…...