Health Insurance
The AHA has released a social media toolkit with sample posts and graphics encouraging people to sign up for 2026 health coverage via the Health Insurance Marketplaces or through Medicare.
A new report from KFF reveals that Medicare Advantage enrollees had access to just 48% of the physicians available to Traditional Medicare beneficiaries in their area, on average, in 2022.
Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage in 2025 increased 6% over last year to $26,993, according to KFF’s annual Employer Health Benefits Survey released today.
The enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) help middle-class Americans purchase affordable, comprehensive coverage on the Health Insurance Marketplace. These tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025, putting millions of families at risk of higher costs and coverage losses.
Absent commercial health insurance companies fulfilling a recent promise to reform their prior authorization (PA) and claims-paying behaviors, what can hospitals and health systems do to combat increasing claim denials and their growing threat to clinical and financial sustainability?
The AHA Oct. 3 responded to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s recent analysis on the financial impacts of Medicare Advantage enrollment growth on hospitals, which found that increased enrollment is not statistically associated, on average, with all-payer hospital margins.
The AHA May 29 submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services responding to a request for information regarding Medicare Advantage data, urging CMS to increase oversight of the program.
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An analysis published Sept. 30 by KFF found that Health Insurance Marketplace enrollees who currently benefit from the enhanced premium tax credits would pay more than double their current premium payments if the EPTCs expire at the end of this year.
The AHA Sept. 29 sent recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help ensure insurance plans adhere to the agencies’ health insurer pledge to reform prior authorization processes.