Around 50,000 seniors in Western Pennsylvania have a big decision to make this Annual Enrollment Period: stick with their Highmark Medicare Advantage plan and lose in-network access to UPMC doctors in the middle of next year OR change their Medicare coverage and continue seeing UPMC doctors at in-network costs. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme…
Bright Health, a Minneapolis-based insurer, will partner with New York-based provider Mt. Sinai to provide Medicare Advantage plans starting in 2019, pending approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). According to Crain’s New York Business, CEO Bob Sheehy said, “We think the Medicare market is a good place to start…
In 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will require a transition from Medicare Cost plans to Medicare Advantage plans for about 630,000 people. Roughly 400,000 of those people live in Minnesota. While the majority of the U.S. moved on in the ‘80s from Medicare Cost plans – managed care plans on…
UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurer in the U.S., has reached a deal to acquire Peoples Health, Louisiana’s second-largest Medicare Advantage provider. Established in 1994, Peoples Health has around 850 employees, 55,000 members, and in 2016, made about $710 million. The company was one of the first in Louisiana to provide Medicare Advantage plans. The…
From 2017 to 2018, enrollment in Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans dropped by 3.7 percent. For the 2018 plan year, a total of 11.8 million people signed up for ACA plans, compared to last year’s 12.2 million enrollees. Prior to open enrollment, the advertising budget for the Affordable Care Act was decreased by 90…
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A year after Walgreens bought a number of Rite Aid locations, the Idaho-based grocery chain Albertsons has agreed to merge with Rite Aid.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have found issues, yet again, with Medicare Advantage organization’s provider directories. Upon a thorough investigation conducted from September 2016 to August 2017, CMS found that 52 percent of the provider directory locations listed contained at least one error. When CMS completed its first review from February…
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