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California
fromABC7 San Francisco
11 hours ago

CA State Senate to vote on slew of insurance reform bills, addressing transparency, non-renewals

California is voting on insurance reform bills aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in the insurance market.
fromTNW | Health-Tech
12 hours ago
Healthcare

How AI Is Reshaping Workers' Compensation Claims and Healthcare Operations

Workers' compensation is a significant yet often overlooked part of the healthcare ecosystem, facing unique challenges and requiring focused innovation.
#insurance-fraud
California
fromFortune
5 days ago

A bizarre insurance scam was exposed as 'clearly a human in a bear suit' damaging luxury cars | Fortune

Three individuals in California staged insurance fraud using a bear costume to claim damages on luxury cars, seeking nearly $142,000 in payouts.
California
fromFortune
5 days ago

A bizarre insurance scam was exposed as 'clearly a human in a bear suit' damaging luxury cars | Fortune

Three individuals in California staged insurance fraud using a bear costume to claim damages on luxury cars, seeking nearly $142,000 in payouts.
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

New Bike Insurance Online for First-Time Buyers in India: A Structured Approach to Getting Started

The insurance policy for bikes is designed to provide financial protection against the risk associated with riding a two-wheeler. As per the Motor Vehicles Act 1988, every two-wheeler in India must have a minimum of third-party cover.
Bicycling
Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
6 days ago

Portable credit reports could lower costs, but fraud worries persist

Consumer-controlled portable credit reports could reduce costs and repeat pulls, but may increase fraud risk according to credit reporting advocates.
#affordable-care-act
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago
US politics

With an ACA fix uncertain in the Senate, Republicans replay old health care fights

Allowing enhanced ACA subsidies to lapse would sharply increase premiums, harming many Americans—especially in Trump-won states—and risk political consequences for Republicans.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago
Public health

Tens of thousands of Californians pay more for health insurance this year after subsidy cuts

Expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies raised premiums and copays for many middle-class Californians, forcing some to switch plans or reduce necessary care.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
1 day ago

How the DOJ Is Tackling Fraud in the ACA Marketplace - MedCity News

Fraud targeting vulnerable populations in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace is a significant issue, with deceptive practices disrupting healthcare access.
Left-wing politics
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How the Battle for Affordable Care Became a Culture War

The Affordable Care Act's passage and implementation faced significant political and cultural challenges, shaping national discourse for years to come.
Healthcare
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Trump Admin Touts ACA Fraud Fixes While Pushing New Barriers to Coverage

The Trump administration proposes new ACA regulations to combat enrollment fraud, but these may hinder eligible applicants from enrolling.
UK politics
fromTheregister
6 days ago

Capita won troubled UK pensions gig after performance checks

Capita was awarded a £239 million contract for the Civil Service Pension Scheme despite issues causing payment delays for retirees.
#healthcare
Healthcare
fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago

Op-Ed | Why NYC's New Health Plan Is Failing Its Workforce | amNewYork

New York City's transition to a new health plan has disrupted access to care for many municipal employees and retirees.
Healthcare
fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago

Op-Ed | Why NYC's New Health Plan Is Failing Its Workforce | amNewYork

New York City's transition to a new health plan has disrupted access to care for many municipal employees and retirees.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
1 week ago

New Bill Seeks to Lower Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs - MedCity News

The Every Dollar Counts Act aims to apply out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs toward patients' deductibles, regardless of purchase method.
Healthcare
fromNew York Post
4 weeks ago

Major NYC hospital accused of using 'market power' to force higher insurance costs: feds

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital allegedly forces insurers to accept higher prices, limiting affordable health insurance options for New Yorkers.
#homeowners-insurance
SF real estate
fromEarth911
2 weeks ago

How Climate Disasters Are Breaking the Homeowners Insurance Market

Homeowners in high-risk areas face significant insurance premium increases due to climate risk, impacting affordability and availability of home insurance.
SF real estate
fromEarth911
2 weeks ago

How Climate Disasters Are Breaking the Homeowners Insurance Market

Homeowners in high-risk areas face significant insurance premium increases due to climate risk, impacting affordability and availability of home insurance.
LA real estate
fromtherealdeal.com
3 weeks ago

Campaign promises offered as assurances on California's troubled resi insurance market

Pacific Palisades residents face a $1.5 million gap between insurance payouts and rebuilding costs after last year's fire.
#health-insurance
Healthcare
fromIndependent
6 days ago

Your Money Questions: When will I be hit by the reduction in benefits on my Laya health insurance?

Laya has reduced coverage for major procedures on the Prosper Advanced scheme to 60%.
Healthcare
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

How to make a high-deductible health plan and HSA work for you

Choosing a low-price health insurance plan can lead to unexpected financial burdens due to high deductibles and lack of understanding of insurance terms.
Healthcare
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

You've Lost Your Health Insurance. It Shouldn't Have Been a Surprise.

Health insurers often fail to provide adequate warnings before coverage loss, relying on outdated communication methods that can lead to critical gaps in patient care.
Healthcare
fromIndependent
6 days ago

Your Money Questions: When will I be hit by the reduction in benefits on my Laya health insurance?

Laya has reduced coverage for major procedures on the Prosper Advanced scheme to 60%.
Healthcare
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

How to make a high-deductible health plan and HSA work for you

Choosing a low-price health insurance plan can lead to unexpected financial burdens due to high deductibles and lack of understanding of insurance terms.
Healthcare
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

You've Lost Your Health Insurance. It Shouldn't Have Been a Surprise.

Health insurers often fail to provide adequate warnings before coverage loss, relying on outdated communication methods that can lead to critical gaps in patient care.
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

How to navigate the maze of drug discounts to get the best price

Many of the medicines on TrumpRx include brand-name drugs that patients can find cheaper elsewhere as generics. For instance, Protonix for heartburn is available for $200 on TrumpRx, but the generic version, pantoprazole, costs less than $30 with a GoodRx coupon.
US news
#healthcare-costs
Healthcare
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Op-ed | To tackle affordability, we must have fair hospital pricing | amNewYork

Two out of three New Yorkers delayed healthcare due to costs, with hospital price inflation exceeding 100% since 2009.
fromAxios
1 month ago
Healthcare

What Americans sacrifice due to high health costs

Rising medical costs force millions of Americans to delay major life decisions like having children, buying homes, retiring, and pursuing education across all income levels.
Healthcare
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Op-ed | To tackle affordability, we must have fair hospital pricing | amNewYork

Two out of three New Yorkers delayed healthcare due to costs, with hospital price inflation exceeding 100% since 2009.
Healthcare
fromAxios
1 month ago

What Americans sacrifice due to high health costs

Rising medical costs force millions of Americans to delay major life decisions like having children, buying homes, retiring, and pursuing education across all income levels.
Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
4 weeks ago

Insurance is having a growing impact on condo affordability

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac revised condo project approval requirements, enhancing affordability but eliminating limited reviews, impacting mortgage access for buyers.
Retirement
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 month ago

How policy uncertainty is reshaping senior retirement plans

Retirees and near-retirees show heightened financial anxiety in 2025, with Social Security benefit cuts emerging as the primary policy concern, prompting delayed retirement plans and portfolio shifts toward conservative investments.
Healthcare
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before

AI automation in insurance claims may lead to increased denials of necessary medical care, raising concerns among patients and advocates.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
4 weeks ago

'This is Crazy': Health Experts Call for Changes to the No Surprises Act - MedCity News

The No Surprises Act is facing challenges due to the misuse of the Independent Dispute Resolution process by providers, leading to unsustainable reimbursement levels.
#auto-insurance
US news
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care

Rising health care costs force Americans to reduce spending, skip meals, delay major life decisions like homeownership and parenthood, and postpone retirement.
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally

The issue is particularly critical right now for people who have insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Prices for those plans have skyrocketed this year after Congress failed to extend critical tax credits. Without those credits, monthly premiums for ACA plans have, on average, more than doubled. Early data on ACA enrollments for 2026 not only suggests that fewer people are signing up for the plans, but also that those who are enrolling are often choosing bronze plans, which are high-deductible plans.
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable

We're seeing more frequent, more severe extreme weather events and that inevitably affects claims and affects pricing it can't not. And this is happening all over the globe. More, after this week's most important reads.
Environment
New York Islanders
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Op-Ed | As healthcare costs surge, lawmakers should focus on reforming rather than expanding costly government programs amNewYork

Expanding 340B program and rising healthcare costs are exacerbating unaffordability, harming minority-owned businesses, and lacking transparency and oversight.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

A Different Way to Rein in Health Care Costs

Medical education's narrow biomedical focus shapes physician values and the medical industrial complex, contributing significantly to the United States' very high health care costs.
fromAol
2 months ago

7 Insurance Moves That Won't Leave You High and Dry, According to Brokers

Insurance is often one of those bills people think about only when premiums rise or a loss makes it necessary to review. Not updating a policy can cost you vastly more money than just paying a slightly higher premium, be that car insurance, home insurance or life insurance, to name a few. Rather than waiting to find out what coverage you have, brokers and other insurance experts offered some moves you should make as soon as possible.
Health
fromFortune
1 month ago

$15 billion of the insurance industry is at risk from AI, BofA says | Fortune

Our view is that large-language model digital agents can effectively do a non-immaterial portion of the work currently provided by 20-30k independent agents across the United States. The core of the firm's bearish thesis centers on a massive pool of routine, low-complexity insurance policies.
Artificial intelligence
Healthcare
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Some Adults Are Delaying Treatment Until Medicare Following ACA Subsidy Loss

Middle-aged adults with Obamacare plans face significant financial strain due to expired subsidies, leading to delayed medical care until Medicare eligibility.
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

As the planet heats, insurance premiums rise - High Country News

Last November, two Washington residents filed a lawsuit accusing petroleum corporations of misleading the public for decades about fossil fuels' effect on climate change and how global warming is harming the planet and its inhabitants. Their lawsuit marks the latest addition to the growing number targeting Big Oil. The case, however, was novel, given the plaintiffs' damage claims: That increased carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have intensified extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods and heat waves.
Environment
#home-insurance
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Are you on a high-deductible health plan? What do you wish you knew?

Rising marketplace premiums pushed many consumers into high-deductible bronze or catastrophic plans that qualify for health savings accounts, creating navigation challenges and HSA uncertainties.
fromEntrepreneur
2 months ago

How to Keep Your Health Plan Costs Manageable - Without Shortchanging Your Team

If you run a business, there's a familiar email you probably opened this fall: the one from your benefits broker with your 2026 health insurance renewal. You scroll. You see a double-digit increase, and your stomach drops. You want to do right by your team. You also have a P&L to protect. And the three standard options you're handed - pay the increase, raise deductibles or push more cost onto employees - all feel bad in different ways.
Business
Public health
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Health insurance costs are up. Women and LGBTQ+ people are paying the price

Women and LGBTQ+ people face skyrocketing ACA marketplace premiums after subsidy lapse, forcing many to cut savings, work more, delay retirement, or forgo insurance.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why insurers' increased use of AI is sparking concerns for policyholders

“fireball burning everything in its path”
Real estate
Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 months ago

Realtor associations add health insurance benefits for members

ORRA and ABoR offer members subscription-based, unlimited access to comprehensive national healthcare teams, reducing unpredictable costs for independent real estate agents and supporting wellbeing.
Public health
fromKqed
2 months ago

'Delay' and 'Deny': Even Health Insurance Companies Agree Prior Authorization Process Is Broken | KQED

Prior authorization often delays or denies medically ordered care; a high-profile assassination of an insurer executive helped trigger bipartisan state laws limiting prior authorization.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data

The idea echoes a policy implemented during his first term, when Trump suggested that requiring hospitals to post their charges online could ease one of the most common gripes about the health care system the lack of upfront prices. To anyone who's gotten a bill three months after treatment only to find mysterious charges, the idea seemed intuitive. "You're able to go online and compare all of the hospitals and the doctors and the prices,"
US news
Healthcare
fromCbsnews
1 month ago

Millions of Americans skip meals, stretch medication to afford health care

One-third of Americans cut everyday expenses and skip meals to afford healthcare, with 82 million making financial sacrifices including borrowing money and reducing utilities.
Healthcare
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Cost of Not Having Health Insurance

A woman survives a burst brain aneurysm and undergoes emergency surgery, with family members gathering to support her recovery in the ICU.
Healthcare
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Californians now worry more about surprise medical bills than housing, survey finds

Two-thirds of Californians worry about unexpected medical bills more than housing or food costs, marking the highest anxiety level since 2022.
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

Irish Life and Level Health to both hike medical insurance premiums

Increases in the cost of delivering healthcare continue to be a challenge for health insurers and these rising costs are outpacing general inflation. Consequently, the price of medical care, medicines and treatments is increasing at a higher rate than everyday household expenses.
Healthcare
Healthcare
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

Why Many Retirees Are Underestimating Healthcare Usage, Not Just Costs

Retirees underestimate healthcare costs by focusing on total spending figures rather than accelerating usage patterns driven by chronic conditions and age-related increases in doctor visits and hospitalizations.
from24/7 Wall St.
2 months ago

The One Medicare Decision at 65 That Shapes Every Healthcare Bill After

Medical inflation runs on its own clock, and the coverage decisions you make at 65 determine whether a serious illness costs you a manageable sum or a devastating one. Healthcare is the single most unpredictable variable in retirement planning because it combines three separate uncertainties: how fast costs will rise, how much care you will need, and which coverage structure you choose.
Healthcare
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