Sometimes, it seems as if navigating health insurance benefits requires its own language (and maybe an actuarial degree to boot). The questions are endless: Is it better to have a high premium and a low deductible, or the other way around? How are you supposed to guess how much money to put in a flexible
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to secure patients’ health data following a surge in massive healthcare data leaks. These stricter cybersecurity rules, proposed by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and expected to be published as
For better or worse, most of what you already know about health insurance isn’t changing next year. The good news is that you won’t need to relearn the basics if your plan is changing in 2025. The bad news is that the risk of unexpected bills remains, in part because the fine print for most
Public Health & Policy > Public Health — Younger adults especially likely to think a mix of factors is to blame for Brian Thompson’s death by Associated Press December 27, 2024 Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the
NBC News investigates health insurance companies denying cancer patients coverage for potentially life-saving treatments. South Korea’s interim president is impeached just two weeks after the ouster of the country’s former leader. And a small Tennessee town is still in recovery mode after Hurricane Helene. Here’s what to know today. When insurance companies deny cancer care
Dec. 27, 2024, 10:00 AM UTC Angela Pike’s husband, Tracy, had just celebrated his 45th birthday when he was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer. A father of three and the maintenance chief of a Louisville, Kentucky, skyscraper, Pike immediately started chemotherapy, which reduced the size of the tumor his doctor had discovered. While continuing
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And while Gen Z respondents spent the most on their pets per month this year, compared to other demographics, they were the most likely to have insurance and least likely to get into pet debt. Getty Images
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