Burnham Benefits colleagues volunteering for a Habit for Humanity build Burnham Benefits The rising cost of health insurance in the United States — up nearly 50% in the last decade — continues to put a greater financial burden on individuals and businesses. Access to health insurance has been tied to employment for most working-age U.S….
The report from the inspector general’s office of the Department of Health and Human Services is the latest red flag related to inappropriate denials by Medicare Advantage plans, which are run by private health care insurers. Annual federal audits have highlighted “widespread and persistent problems related to inappropriate denials of services and payment,” the office…
Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – part of what is now called The Great Resignation. Around 4 million workers have quit each month between July and November 2021. Erica Leman had maintained a side hustle as a wedding photographer for 12 years. Like millions of other Americans, Leman, who was working in…
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VectorInspiration/Getty Images VectorInspiration/Getty Images Some insurance brokers are enrolling people into Affordable Care Act health plans without their consent, perhaps for the commissions, a move that could put consumers in danger of owing back the subsidies connected with the coverage. The damage could be hundreds or even thousands of dollars. A consumer’s first hint that…
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CLOUD Vapours has announced an ambitious plan to grow the business over the next three years. The family business, which has a shop on Cowdenbeath High Street, was established in 2013, and has both dedicated retail operations throughout the Kingdom and a manufacturing facility which also supplies a number of other independent e-cigarette and vape…
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Update: Government to Provide Free At-Home Tests On Dec. 21, President Joe Biden said that the federal government is purchasing 500 million at-home COVID-19 testing kits, to be sent free of charge to Americans who request them, and setting up new federal testing sites around the country to help states that need additional testing…
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The use of telemedicine skyrocketed during the pandemic, transforming health care with a convenient alternative to in-person visits. Telemedicine can afford patients increased access to care and preventive services as well as an integrated digital experience. This was certainly a welcome and long-overdue development, for both patients and clinicians. But now, some health insurance companies…
Payers, employers and other group health plan sponsors must report prescription drug and health coverage costs for consumers under a federal regulation published Wednesday. Plans and issuers must begin reporting information by Dec. 27, 2021 and submit their information each following year by June 1. However, the rule says enforcement actions won’t be taken against…
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