Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – State insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts health insurers will be required to streamline, and in some cases scrap altogether, pre-approval for many routine medical procedures and medications under proposed new state ...

HHS proposed three new rules today related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the rules involved several major portions of the law, including essential health benefits, health ...

The health insurance industry has had a tough few years. But 2026 is poised to be a reset period, where efforts from insurers to stabilize their finances, operations and public images could start to ...

Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale. The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two ...

Even before the conflict over Obamacare subsidies that resulted in a month-and-a-half-long government shutdown, Democrats were already attacking Republicans over their reforms to the federal public ...

Options that might seem like alternatives, like fixed indemnities and short-term plans, don’t offer comprehensive medical coverage and aren’t subject to ACA patient protections. Somehow, at some point ...

Federal cuts to Medicaid will end up increasing costs to the nation’s health care system as low-income people who lose their coverage will seek treatment in emergency rooms and other high-cost ...

Federal and state actions seek transparency and fair reimbursements from pharmacy benefit managers, as rural communities lose local drugstores.

BOSTON (SHNS) – State insurance regulators unveiled sweeping prior authorization reforms that would scrap pre-approval requirements for “many routine and essential” health care services, Gov. Maura ...