Emily Olsen
Reporter at Healthcare Dive
Reporter @HealthcareDive | @LoyolaChicago, @MedillSchool alum | Tips and news: 📧 [email protected]
Articles
-
1 day ago |
healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Emily Olsen
Listen to the article 6 min A key trust fund underpinning Medicare's hospital benefit will go broke three years earlier than previously expected absent congressional action, threatening benefits for seniors, according to the Medicare trustees' annual report released Wednesday.
-
3 days ago |
healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Emily Olsen
Listen to the article 6 min A nascent form of health coverage that creates an alternative gateway for employers to offer Affordable Care Act coverage to their workers is seeing rising uptake, especially among midsize to large employers. Adoption of individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, or ICHRA plans, rose 34% from 2024 to 2025 among employers with 50 or more full-time employees, according to a new report from trade association the HRA Council.
-
4 days ago |
healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Emily Olsen
Listen to the article 10 minHumana is the second largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the country. But during the company's annual investor day on Monday, Humana was the program's No. 1 defender. Over the course of the four-hour event, Humana laid out a vociferous defense of the privatized Medicare plans, which are popular among seniors but face rising calls for reform amid evidence major insurers are gaming the program to pad their bottom line. MA is misunderstood, Humana's executives said.
-
4 days ago |
healthcaredive.com | Emily Olsen |Rebecca Pifer
Listen to the article 5 minRepublican senators are proposing even more drastic cuts to Medicaid than their House counterparts, setting the latest iteration of the GOP's reconciliation megabill up for opposition fromhealthcare lobbies - and likely complicating the bill's chances of passingthe full Senate. The Senate Finance Committee released its draft version of the legislation on Monday.
-
4 days ago |
healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Emily Olsen
Listen to the article 5 min Cuts to Medicaid backed by Republicans on the Hill would lead to between 8,000 and nearly 25,000 avoidable deaths each year, according to new research. The study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Tuesday was based on the reconciliation megabill passed by the House last month. It comes one day after the Senate released its own version of the legislation, which includes even steeper cuts to Medicaid.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 615
- Tweets
- 3K
- DMs Open
- No
RT @healthcaredive: Medical leaders including the HHS argue the ruling against race-conscious admissions policies could roll back gains in…
The deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter next year, will “significantly strengthen” Bright’s capital position, the insurtech said. https://t.co/orsNgNIIUu
RT @healthcaredive: CVS Health was one of the first retailers to launch a clinical trials business. But a number of other competitors follo…