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The ED Remains Colored by Despair by Edwin Leap, MD, Contributing Writer, MedPage January 1, 2024   In late 2022, Edwin Leap, MD, wrote about how emergency departments throughout the country were overburdened with patients and staffed with healthcare workers who were running out of steam. As part of our review of the past year’s […]

The Case Of The Missing Health Care Providers By Helen Santoro January 2, 2024   For the past 24 years, Sarah has operated a physical therapy clinic in a small town in Boulder County, Colorado. Her clinic is in-network with health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, though Sarah’s reimbursement rate paid by the insurer for each patient

Marketing Medicare Advantage to seniors of color – even when it’s bad for their health By Matthew Cunningham-Cook January 3, 2024   Eugene Quishenberry was 85 years old when his Medicare Advantage plan stopped covering his skilled nursing care. Less than a year later, in 2015, he died.   “It was weird. I came to

Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker Dec 20, 2023   The Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker presents the most recent data on monthly Medicaid disenrollments, renewals, overall enrollment and other key indicators reported by states during the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision. The unwinding data are pulled from state websites, where available, and from

I’m Sorry, Your Patient No Longer Has Medicaid Coverage by Valerie Smith, MD, MPH December 29, 2023   In March, MedPage Today reported on the impending rollback of provisions that kept millions of Americans enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID public health emergency. As part of our review of the past year’s biggest events, Texas

Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker [KFF] Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker Dec 07, 2023   The data presented here provide a snapshot of each state at the start of and during the unwinding period. Figure 1 shows total Medicaid enrollment by month starting in January 2023 and, once disenrollments resume in a state, the cumulative

What to Watch in the 2024 ACA Open Enrollment by Cynthia Cox, Kaye Pestaina, Krutika Amin, and Jared Ortaliza Oct 30, 2023   With the start of the 2024 Affordable Care Act open enrollment, the Marketplaces have been operating for a full decade and are heading into their eleventh year. This year’s open enrollment season

Hospitals Say Some Medicare Advantage Plans Are Skirting CMS Rules by Cheryl Clark, Contributing Writer November 27, 2023   Some Medicare Advantage (MA) plans do not intend to abide by the 2024 CMS rule that prohibits them from denying coverage of services that traditional Medicare would cover. Instead, the private plans are using their own

STAT Morning Rounds: Six health news stories you need to start your day By Theresa Gaffney December 4, 2023   Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter here.   How sickle cell became the first CRISPR’d disease Nearly a decade ago, consultants delivered to

National Single Payer Denounces Targeting of Hospitals in Gaza By Judy Albert, Claire Cohen, Ed Grystar, Ana Malinow, Martha Schmidt and Kay Tillow, Counter Punch November 30, 2023   And U.S. Complicity In Genocide. As a national, grassroots, social justice organization that organizes locally in the struggle for national single payer health care in the