Health/Employee Benefits News

On July 4th, 2025, congressional Republicans passed their so-called One, Big, Beautiful Bill, making the largest health care cuts in American history. On top of dealing a $1 trillion blow to federal health care funding, Republicans last year drove up premiums for millions who buy health insurance on their own. Beginning next year, Republicans will force families…

2026 JUN 29– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Fitness& Wellness Daily– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for“ HEALTH CARE WITH HEART” by Roger H. Bora Thompson Hine LLP, representing CareSource. This application was made available to the public on June 11, 2026.

Navigating your health insurance can get complicated fast once you move beyond deductibles and co-pays. Prior authorization, a utilization-management tool, is one of those complications. It was originally created to help insurance providers deal with high-cost, high-risk or unusual healthcare services.

We commonly hear the United States is $39 trillion in debt. But, if we want Social Security and Medicare Part A benefits to continue as is indefinitely, we’ re $103 trillion in the hole, according to the latest trustee reports from the Social Security Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Medicare programs. That’ s nearly $300,000 for each U.S. taxpayer.

The Harlan City Council gave its first reading of the budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year during their meeting on June 25. While health insurance premiums have also seen a stark increase, Mayor Joe Meadors made it clear that the city would be the ones footing the bill. According to Meadors, the increased price of health insurance will cost the city an additional…

The Maryland Insurance Administration announced Friday that, for the second year, healthcare carriers are proposing high premium rate increases following the expiration of a popular federal tax credit that helped keep some plans on the state insurance marketplace more affordable. "The significant rate increases filed with the Maryland Insurance…

Maryland residents who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace could see higher premiums next year, with insurers requesting an average rate increase of 13.7% for 2027, according to filings submitted to the Maryland Insurance Administration. “The significant rate increases filed with the Maryland Insurance Administration for…

—About 3 million fewer people in the United States had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year, according to new federal data. In the report released Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggested the 13% drop in enrollment from 22.1 million people in 2025 to 19.2 million this year could be…

Navigating your health insurance can get complicated fast once you move beyond deductibles and co-pays. Prior authorization, a utilization-management tool, is one of those complications. It was originally created to help insurance providers deal with high-cost, high-risk or unusual healthcare services.

That may be fine when the tickets sold are for harmless attractions, but what mostly seems for sale in 21st- century Washington is this country's very soul. Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. Unfortunately, that necessity has been ignored by President Donald…

Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. A National Institutes of Health study concluded the Obama administration "bowed to the demands of the medical industrial complex comprised of hospitals, insurance companies, and drug companies" to help it make the ACA law…

The following information was released by Families USA:. In response, Families USA Executive Director Anthony Wright issued the following response:. "After historic enrollment highs just two years ago driven by the affordability assistance of the tax credits, this coverage collapse was a choice that Congress made.

Congressman Bob Onder released the following statement after his bill, H.R. 9228, the Health Data Access, Transparency, and Affordability Act of 2026, passed out of the Education and Workforce Committee and now awaits consideration on the House floor. As a physician and a Congressman, I am proud to do my part to ensure timely access to the information needed for…

That may be fine when the tickets sold are for harmless attractions, but what mostly seems for sale in 21st- century Washington is this country’ s very soul. Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. Unfortunately, that necessity has been ignored by President Donald…

A Tennessee law will bar pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail pharmacies as of July 1, 2028, though CVS Health Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit to avoid having to close its 136 pharmacies there. Pharmacy benefit managers, particularly CVS and two other large companies, handle most U.S. prescriptions. Lawmakers in at least 26 states introduced more…

Sentara Health Plans, the health insurance division of Norfolk-based Sentara Health, has a new president. With more than two decades of executive leadership in health insurance, Michael Cole started in that role and as executive vice president of Sentara Health last week, according to a Thursday announcement. Previously, Cole served as president of Aetna' s…

EDWARDSVILLE– A Collinsville man and a St. Louis woman were charged out of Madison County last week with health insurance fraud. The suspects, a 59- year-old Collinsville man and a 60- year-old St. Louis woman, were each charged June 16 with managed health care fraud and two counts of theft, all Class 1 felonies; conspiracy to commit theft, both Class 2 felonies; and…