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Ease HSA Users' Access to Mental Health Care: Employer Group to Congress
By Allison BellOne idea: Congress could allow first-dollar coverage for telehealth and worksite clinic counseling.
April 16, 2021
CMS Nominee Likes New Medicare Advantage Telehealth FlexibilityChiquita Brooks-LaSure said her own psychologist brother is using telehealth to see more patients.
April 16, 2021
UnitedHealth Still Sees COVID-19 Surges Crowding Out Other CareThe company is assuming that use of non-COVID-19 care will rise later in the year, as the pandemic eases.
April 16, 2021
Oscar Names Virtual Primary Care Team Head: Personnel MovesChubb named accident and health executives. Minnesota Blue and United Concordia hired sales executives.
April 15, 2021
Q1 Life, Health and Annuity Earnings CalendarUnitedHealth got the latest round of earnings off to a brisk start.
April 14, 2021
CBO Sketches Out Public Option Health Plan PossibilitiesAnalysts say a program could crowd out private insurers or play alongside them.
April 13, 2021
Federal Surprise Billing Regs Coming Soon: NAIC Spring National MeetingJeffrey Wu, an ACA programs official, also talked about the tidal wave that never came.
April 12, 2021
Biden Hopes to Increase Respite Care FundingHis early budget request for 2022 also includes more money for fighting HIV and opioid abuse.