Starting Oct. 1, new eligibility rules and updated benefit amounts will take effect for the estimated 37 million Americans receiving SNAP assistance.

In one video, a woman shows her bill on camera. The grand total was $45,000. “Thankfully my insurance covered the majority,” she said. But she still owed $1,982.93.

If Congress shields self-insured plans from state regulation, it must ensure that federal oversight is strong enough to protect workers, discipline vendors, and hold employers accountable. It could do...

After UnitedHealthcare denied his surgery, Donald Grant took his 11-page legal and medical appeal straight to UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley — and got his request approved.

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A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.

The main difference between MedPAC and CMS estimates of uncorrected coding intensity is that MedPAC’s estimate accounts for the upward trend in coding intensity.

New data shows patients who appeal prior authorization denials win about half the time and in some health plans, as often as nine out of ten.

The four largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S. | The four largest PBMs by national market share were OptumRx (23%), Express Scripts (23%), CVS/Caremark (18%) and Prime Therapeutics (11%).

AI billing software may be pushing up hospital costs even when patients are not actually sicker and their treatment is no more intensive.

The Hill's Health Next Summit return on November 10. Click here to book your seat today.

Major changes are coming to Medicaid. Are you ready? New Medicaid eligibility rules could affect your health coverage starting January 1. Join us to learn what’s changing, how to keep your coverage,...

A data center proposed on BLM land near Hermiston would be the first on federal public land in Oregon, one of dozen proposed in six western states.

​"Cantor, like PhRMA, is an experienced reverse Robin Hood, legislating money away from working families and toward giant corporations."

Rob Lott and Irene Papanicolas examine how Americans pay for health care through taxes, premiums, and out-of-pocket costs, and what those patterns mean for affordability and financing policy.

After a series of losses in constitutional challenges to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the drug industry seems to be moving to challenging the program on statutory grounds.

The lawsuit over UnitedHealth’s nH Predict algorithm was filed nearly three years ago. Since then, it has survived a major challenge and forced the company to turn over internal information.

Instituting a cap on Medicare out-of-pocket expenses would likely help limit financial toxicity experienced by patients and their families due to high healthcare costs.

Four cabbie deaths over the summer raise new questions about the beleaguered industry.

Trump Administration Gets OK To Scale Back Disability ProtectionsThe federal government will do away with rules requiring that people with #disabilities be served in the community under a settlement with a handful of states that advocates say sidesteps decades of precedent. #Section504 #DisabilityRights Click the link in our bio to read more.

As the healthcare sector rapidly adopts and deploys artificial intelligence, one organization urges stakeholders to use their purchasing power to demand environmental transparency from AI | Health Car...

The Trump administration announced Fri | The Trump administration announced Friday that it is launching a new partnership with 37 states that aims to rethink how quality is measured in Medicaid and CH...

A mom posted her mail pile from the year after she had her baby. It's still coming. Every week another envelope from a medical group she's never heard of. One says $2,000 with a QR code to pay. No it...

The American people are sick and tired of being denied medical care, or avoiding it altogether because it costs an arm and a leg. It’s time for Medicare for All.

Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...

Scientists have found that postmenopausal ovaries remain biologically active rather than becoming inert. Their changing molecular profiles suggest they may continue influencing whole-body health and a...

States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying.

Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton's ad exposes Sen. Roger Marshall's aggressive medical debt collection tactics.

Florida's dengue count is approaching the highest level seen in recent years, led by a major outbreak in Hillsborough County.

“The study suggests that peptide-based therapies may offer a new approach to treating complex neurodegenerative diseases.”

“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”