The U.S. Government Accountability Office is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to gauge the effect that an increase in telehealth utilization is having on the care quality experienced by Medicaid beneficiaries. The GAO cited statistics showing usage continues to rise.

UCare, a nonprofit health plan serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has tapped healthcare guidance and transparency technology company HealthSparq on a price transparency solution months before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule goes into effect for payers.. The partnership is to give members more personalized and accurate cost estimates for healthcare services for […]

Medicare Advantage plan payments are expected to get an 8.5% revenue increase for 2023. This is an increase over the 7.98% proposed in the February advance notice.

Despite the increased demand for patient care in 2021, the growth in national healthcare spending is estimated to have slowed to 4.2%, from 9.7% in 2020, according to the 2021-2030 National Health Expenditure report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 

Providers are bracing for the end of government funds to administer COVID-19 vaccines.

Beginning late last week, the Biden Administration extended postpartum healthcare coverage to as many as 720,000 pregnant and postpartum people across the U.S., who are now assured Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage for a full 12 months after pregnancy.

More than 90% of patients in a new survey say they’re satisfied with the service provided by local healthcare providers, but they’re frustrated with certain aspects of their care, including wait times and price transparency.

Geisinger, an integrated health system of over 3 million patients in the central, northeastern section of  Pennsylvania, had a problem faced by hospitals and patients nationwide: Type 2 diabetes.