A significant number of health insurance consumers gained coverage for services after filing an appeal, according to research from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
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In an opinion piece published by the Houston Chronicle, the president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas wrote that healthcare delivery systems in rural parts of the state are "on life-support or nonexistent."
The uninsured rate among children increased between 2016 and 2017, representing 276,000 more uninsured children across the U.S. and the first observed increase in uninsured children since 2008, according to a recent report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
Signups through the ACA health insurance exchanges declined year over year during the 2019 open-enrollment period, CMS revealed on Dec. 19.
Texas has about 4.7 million uninsured people younger than 65, making it the state with the highest uninsured population, according to new Urban Institute research.
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The American Medical Association, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Medical Society and Manatt Health, released a spotlight analysis of efforts to curb Pennsylvania's opioid epidemic.
The first study to show a causal relationship between the ACA's health insurance subsidies and financial stability has been provisionally accepted by the Journal of Public Economics, according to a report from CityLab.
A nurse working at an addiction treatment program at Boston Medical Center was denied life insurance for carrying the life-saving drug naloxone, according to wbur.
Ambulance response times to cardiac arrest 911 calls are 10 percent longer in low-income areas, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
People identifying as heterosexual are less likely to misuse opioids than those who have a different sexual orientation, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.