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The Rural Emergency Hospital program guarantees hospitals extra cash if they provide emergency and outpatient services but end inpatient care, although just 18 out of 1,700 eligible hospitals have won the new designation.

Cancer patients received letters from the prestigious Manhattan hospital in December claiming the insurer would soon drop their coverage, but there is now a tentative agreement in place to provide coverage through April 14.

Michigan's top insurance regulator told health plans on Monday that they cannot deny coverage for clinically proven cancer treatments, after a deceased patient's insurer refused to pay for life-saving gene therapy treatment.

Federal regulations require health insurers to promptly hand over records to patients facing claim denials within 30 days, however, Anthem, Aetna and UnitedHealth blew past the 30-day deadline in a recent ProPublica investigation.

A data-driven alternative called "green lighting" has emerged as a more efficient and flexible approach to prior authorization.

The analysis said the consistently high levels of market concentration can be linked to consolidation of insurers through mergers and acquisition.

In North Carolina, lawmakers outraged that breast cancer patients were being denied reconstructive surgeries passed a measure forcing health insurers…

Although the pandemic is over, COVID-19 remains a persistent threat, as incidents of a highly mutated variant, BA.2.86, have tripled in the past 2 weeks but the CDC is confident the vaccines will be effective against the new strain.