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On Thursday, the Charmed actress took to Instagram to post a photo of her sitting in hospital with an IV in her left arm. In the accompanying caption, Shannen asked The Nanny actress, who was elected president of the labour union that represents actors and media professionals in 2021, to reconsider rules relating to health […]

Humana to Exit Employer Insurance Business to Focus on Government Plans February 23, 2023 by Sriparna Roy Editing by Savio D’Souza and Sriraj Kalluvila   Feb 23 (Reuters) – Humana Inc (HUM.N) will exit the employer-based insurance business over the next 18 to 24 months, it said on Thursday, to focus primarily on government-backed programs

Medicare Advantage Enrollees face Higher Likelihood of Hospital Care Denials February 21, 2023 by Diane Archer   Paige Minemyer reports for Fierce Healthcare that hospitals treating Medicare Advantage enrollees faced a higher likelihood of claim denials last year than the year before. Medicare Advantage plans, administered by private health insurers, use tools that limit coverage

Medicare Advantage Plans Denied Two Million Prior Authorization Requests in 2021 February 8, 2023 by Diane Archer   Imagine that you were given a wad of cash to deliver a service when necessary. And, it was in your discretion to determine when the service was necessary. That’s effectively the way Medicare Advantage works, with the

Life and Dollars: A Health Care Insider’s Account of how Prior Authorization Really Works By: Wendell Potter (Substack) February 7, 2023   Prior authorization started out as a means by the “payers” of health care goods and services to provide patients the assurance that what their doctors order is medically necessary and appropriate. A strong

  100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt By Noam N. LeveyJUNE 16, 2022 DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated. Ariane Buck,

Ke Huy Quan Lost Health Insurance After Filming ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ By Greg Evans March 3, 2023 1:06pm Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once actor Ke Huy Quan is used to the long periods of inactivity in a performer’s life, but the former Goonies child star found himself in a particularly thorny stretch

Opinion: How has American healthcare gone so wrong? It shouldn’t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them. But money gets in the way. (Elise Amendola / Associated Press) By Daniel J. Stone March 4, 2023 3 AM PT   We all have bad weeks. Mine recently made me

Report Shows Big Insurance Profiting Massively From Medicare Privatization The seven largest for-profit insurance companies in the U.S. have seen their combined revenues from taxpayer-backed programs grow 500% over the past decade. In a report from Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive who now advocates for systemic healthcare reform, government programs are now the source

Proportion of Black physicians in U.S.  has changed little in 120 years, UCLA research finds Enrique Rivero | April 19, 2021 A new UCLA study finds that the proportion of physicians who are Black in the U.S.  has increased by only 4 percentage points over the past 120 years, and that the share of doctors who