WASHINGTON - Americans who purchase their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace are bracing for a steep rise in costs next year that many say they will not be able to afford, according to a poll released by the nonpartisan health organization KFF.
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills.
“I am concerned your symptoms are due to Parkinson’s disease,” is something I have said to numerous patients over the years.
Between 2019 and 2023, the number of outpatient Medicaid prescriptions for select GLP-1s to treat diabetes and obesity grew from 755,300 to 3.8 million. During the same period, Medicaid spending on those drugs increased from $597.3 million to $3.9 billion.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ call for a close reexamination of the 42 million people who receive federal food aid has befuddled advocates and lawmakers, coming days after recipients began to see benefits that had been stalled during the government shutdown.
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