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The initial reduction in force happened during the second week of the shutdown as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the government workforce.
State regulators are investigating a security breach at a third-party vendor for Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana that may have compromised the medical and personal information of hundreds of thousands of residents.
“Other than out-of-pocket costs, I would wager that prior authorization review is the one thing consumers find most burdensome in our current health system,” said Drew Altman, president and CEO of KFF.
Gottlieb served as commissioner from 2017 to 2019, where he became known for promoting transparency, strengthening patient safety and widening consumer choice, according to the company’s announcement.
Americans in the top-ranked states are more likely to report receiving high-quality, proactive care from their providers and to experience fewer barriers to accessing health care services, including challenges related to finding providers, transportation and personal health or mobility limitations.
Eighty-five percent of health plan leaders struggle with provider data inaccuracies, with an average of 19% of their data considered unreliable, a new report found.
New Jersey officials alleged that Horizon fraudulently induced the state to enter into a 2020 contract to administer its employee benefit programs and then systematically overcharged for health care claims.