“Unfortunately, false or misleading advertisements and fraudulent sales practices are not new issues for Medicare beneficiaries,” said the chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
By JAKE JOHNSON PUBLISHED JUNE 1, 2022 1:30PM (EDT) he Biden administration quietly announced last week that it will leave in place one of the largest-ever Medicare premium hikes for the remainder of 2022, despite federal health officials’ decision to restrict coverage of the expensive and potentially ineffective Alzheimer’s drug that drove the increase. Progressive
By Reed Abelson April 28, 2022 Investigators urged increased oversight of the program, saying that insurers deny tens of thousands of authorization requests annually. Retired municipal workers at City Hall Park in Manhattan protested in February against being switched to a Medicare Advantage plan.Credit…Lev Radin/Pacific Press/ZUMA Press Wire, via Alamy Every year, tens of thousands
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MARCH 7TH, 2022 If you’re wondering how to make a doctor angry — really, really angry — read on. Because asking us to justify treatment decisions to insurance companies and their pharmacy benefit managers must rank right up there with the greatest tortures of practicing medicine in this country. Mind you, this isn’t just about my
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Single-payer universal healthcare is within reach for Californians. On Jan. 20, Assembly Bill 1400, also known as CalCare, passed the California state assembly appropriations committee. If CalCare passes the assembly floor by Jan. 31 it will advance to the state senate. Right now, around a third of California’s population is on Medi-Cal, a free public
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Other states will be watching the debate play out in Sacramento.
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No insurer has ever made that kind of money in U.S. history.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made guaranteed health care a central piece of his gubernatorial campaign some four years ago, promising specifically to deliver a single-payer system that would give every resident free access to comprehensive treatment. In an April 2018 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, however, Newsom did what he’s done on numerous issues
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The California Nurses Association endorsed Gavin Newsom for governor in 2018 in part because he supported their core issue: single-payer health care. But Newsom hasn’t backed a single-payer bill currently in the Legislature, and he’s getting an…
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By David Lazarus The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned debt collectors and credit agencies last week that they need to step more carefully when it comes to trashing people’s credit scores because of stratospheric medical bills. The agency’s notice underlines that the federal No Surprises Act took effect this month, protecting people from many unex-
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