Payer

Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel testified before the Senate Budget Committee May 12 to discuss how implementing a single-payer healthcare system based on the Medicare fee-for-service program would affect the nation's healthcare, budget and economy.

The ongoing contract dispute between the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi has left one patient fearful his liver transplant surgery won't be covered by his health insurance at the state's only organ transplant…

Delaware Gov. John Carney signed a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program into law May 10.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health Plan will distribute in-home medication disposal bags to more than 11,000 members of its UPMC for Life Medicare Advantage plan throughout the month of May.

While an estimated 28.9 million Americans under 65 were uninsured in 2019, over a dozen towns across the country boasted uninsured rates of effectively zero during the same period, according to financial news site 24/7 Tempo.

The vast majority of nonpediatric office-based physicians are accepting new patients with Medicare and private insurance, according to a May 12 Kaiser Family Foundation report.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has created the Department of Financial Services' Pharmacy Benefits Bureau, an office tasked with licensing and regulating the state's pharmacy benefits industry.

Despite explosive growth in revenues and total membership, some of the largest insurtech companies posted losses exceeding a combined $332 million in the first quarter of 2022.

Forty-one million of the nearly 180 million Americans with employer-provided health insurance received mental health support in 2020, according to the health insurer lobby and trade group America's Health Insurance Plans.

Medicare Part D spending on top brand-name drugs over a five-year period "more than made up the money" that drugmakers say it costs to develop new medications, according to a May 11 AARP report.