Some employers across the U.S. are broadening their list of benefit options to meet the changing demands of younger employees and to make up for health insurance that costs more than ever before.
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Two of the three insurers in North Carolina's Affordable Care Act marketplace will pull its plans from the exchange in 2017, reports The Washington Post.
Some small business executives in Michigan are looking to decrease administrative costs and premium prices for employees by asking state regulators for help, Crain's Detroit Business reports.
Today, many small employers that dropped group coverage for employees are reversing that decision — as The Wall Street Journal noted — and again shopping for small group health plans as individual plan premiums increase and provider networks narrow.
As open enrollment season kicks off, here are six insurance industry trends for healthcare consumers and professionals to know, according to Denver Business Journal.
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A significant number of Americans who purchased coverage through the Affordable Care Act exchanges last year have learned their policy will cease to exist in 2017, forcing them to find new coverage as options dwindle.
CMS is telling individuals with subsidized marketplace health plans who are nearing Medicare eligibility age and individuals simultaneously enrolled in Medicare and marketplace coverage that they should abandon their marketplace plans, Kaiser Health News reports.
Each year, beneficiaries can enroll in Medicare health and prescription drug plans from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7.
Here are 16 contract resolutions and dissolutions that occurred between payers and providers in the past month, beginning with the most recent.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center will no longer be in network with individual health plans sold through the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year, Washington Examiner reports.