Medicare & Medicaid
UHC is characterizing its offerings as providing better ancillary benefits, lower prescription drug costs and improvements to core benefits.
The funding is intended to improve service delivery, promote the adoption of healthy behaviors and reduce existing health disparities.
Cost-sharing limit for insulin is $35 a month and recommended adult vaccines will be at no additional cost.
The idea is to ensure more eligible people retain Medicaid coverage; the initiatives coincide with the Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
There is a widespread inability to support the access, exchange and use of electronic health information, the groups say.
Hospitals logged $39.3 million in improper Medicare Part B payments from 2016 to 2021, a new audit has found.
Physicians see the need to reduce the gaming of risk adjustment and to create accountability focused on outcomes, not processes.
Starting July 1, cost-sharing for insulin will be capped at $35 for a one-month supply.
Sentara is the Medicaid provider for 42% of all Medicaid lives in Virginia, with 100% in a managed care plan.
Pregnancy-related complications have worsened 9% since 2018, with a marked increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.