Health Insurance

A new Commonwealth Fund report released is shedding light on how insurance costs of working Americans in every state are consuming a greater share of incomes than they did a decade ago.
This document summarizes UHC’s response to AHA’s letter on forthcoming changes to the insurer’s coverage criteria for emergency-level care.
This document summarizes a letter from AHA to UnitedHealthcare on forthcoming changes to the insurer’s coverage criteria for emergency-level care.
U.S. spending on health care grew 9.7% in 2020, up from 4.3% in 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in Health Affairs.
Almost 4.6 million people have selected a 2022 health plan through the federally facilitated or state-based marketplaces since open enrollment started Nov. 1, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The recent release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits survey put data behind a number of trends that surfaced during the pandemic. But a deeper look at the trends behind the numbers illustrates why many employees are feeling the pinch of rising health care costs and…
How many Americans don't have health insurance? An estimated 9.6% of U.S. residents, or 31.1 million people, were uninsured and lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first six months of 2021, according to preliminary estimates from the National Health Interview Survey released by the Centers…
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% this year to $22,221, including employer and worker contributions, according to the latest annual survey of employer-sponsored health insurance by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Open enrollment for 2022 coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces kicked off. The federally facilitated marketplace is open through Jan. 15, with over 5,500 local navigators and assisters and 48,000 agents and brokers available to help.
The number of uninsured U.S. residents did not change substantially during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services.