High rate increase requests have left health insurance regulators in Maryland with this challenge: At a time when insurers are pulling out of the individual markets in state after state, how high can you allow them to raise their prices without inflicting ...
Read More »Study: Rural Marylanders helped by Medicaid expansion
As President Donald Trump and his administration look to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make deep cuts to Medicaid, a new study showed evidence that Medicaid expansion has decreased the number of uninsured in rural areas of the country. ...
Read More »Md. integrated health insurance plans get high marks from consumers
Health insurers that integrate with providers to create an easy process for members score the highest on customer satisfaction, according to a new study from J.D. Power. Maryland insurers scored highest for customer satisfaction among the regions separated by the ...
Read More »Md. pharmacists now birth control providers
Pharmacists in Maryland will be able to prescribe birth control under a new Maryland law, another step as they gain more abilities to act as providers of medical care. At a time when the medical community is concerned about disparities ...
Read More »Md. lawmakers tackled range of health issues in 2017 General Assembly session
Under the shadow of federal efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the General Assembly this session passed several bills that look to insulate Marylanders from changes to the health insurance law and passed packages of bills designed to ...
Read More »As ACA repeal nears, Maryland’s hospital payment system up in the air
President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night offered some insights into what his plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act might look like, but an important aspect of any reform that would uniquely affect ...
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