1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (274+ words) Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Florida-based Complete Health will pay a $14.1 million settlement stemming from allegations that it inflated patient diagnoses to overcharge Medicare, the Justice Department said Monday. DOJ officials said from 2020 to 2023, the company routinely added bogus diagnosis coding to its…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (249+ words) July 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it is withholding more than $1 billion from California and Minnesota. The federal government will withhold more than $867 million in payments from California and more than $200 million from Minnesota on…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (266+ words) April 23 (UPI) -- On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a new drug price deal with Regeneron, the latest to agree to the "most favored nation" price policy the White House has pushed since last year. The price deals involve voluntary price…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (421+ words) March 12 (UPI) -- People in the United States are killing budgets, skipping meals, stretching prescriptions and driving less as they struggle to keep up with healthcare expenses, a survey shows. Gallup found in a survey that more than one-third of Americans…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago   (218+ words) Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Enrollments in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for individuals are down by 1.2 million after 23 million bought coverage during the open enrollment period that ended on Jan. 15. The number of enrollees is down from the 24.2 million who signed…...

6+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

6+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

7+ mon, 1+ 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…...

7+ mon, 3+ 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....

7+ mon, 3+ 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…...