Medicare & Medicaid
Low early testing levels and poor access to care among disadvantaged populations is driving up the expense.
AMA report finds 75.6 percent of physicians had practices that treated uninsured patients in 2016, compared to 81.3 percent in 2012.
Seniorlink said patients tied to tech-enabled care managers used significantly fewer inpatient hospital and ER services.
Spending rises as states that implemented Medicaid expansion started to pay 5 percent of the costs of those enrollees in January 2017.
Cuts to safety net entitlement programs would pose a significant risk to providers' reimbursement of care for older, sicker and disabled populations.
Rule would cut Medicare Part B drug payments to hospitals participating in the 340B drug discount program.
Researchers find increasing use by vulnerable populations as socioeconomic and racial inequality creates barriers to the use of healthcare.
While GOP and President Trump seek major cuts in federal funding of Medicaid, 26 states this year expanded or enhanced benefits.
The insurer said enrollment grew by nearly 1 million people, split evenly between Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement coverage.
Court found no proof that UnitedHealth officers signed off on Medicare Advantage data they knew to be false.