The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage plans really didn’t ratchet up their premiums for 2024, despite wailing that they would.
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Arbitration, the land where nobody is happy
After Congress officially outlawed most types of surprise medical bills last year, there’s been endless, litigious debate as to how health insurance companies and providers should settle their differences while patients are held harmless. That behind-the-scenes arbitration process has turned into a gigantic, gummed-up mess, leading to very few resolutions between disputing parties.
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