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The Wall Street Journal reports that these proposed rate boosts will set the stage for debate regarding the health law's impact. Wellmark's South Dakota members are among those likely to see such rate hikes, according to The Associated Press.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
News outlets examine health care issues in Colorado, Missouri, Michigan, Oregon, Georgia, Florida and New York.
Pennsylvania and a number of other states only broadly note in official databases information about drug overdoses, but the most recent statistics date to 2012 and generally don't include specific information about the drugs in use. Meanwhile, in related news, a Maine legislator advances a bill to make abuse-deterrent painkillers more affordable and a crackdown on prescription drug abuse in the South leads to charges against two physicians.
In what might be a national precedent, the doctors' group changed its decades-long opposition to a proposal that allows physicians to help seriously ill patients end their lives.
The first meeting of the commission created by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to examine government hospital spending ended with a sense that the group won't come up with solutions before the legislature's June 30 deadline to pass a budget that will set health care funding levels.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson estimates that 10 new drugs the company wants to bring to market could reap $1 billion in annual sales. In other research news, a group of virus hunters aims to change the ways insurers and countries handle Ebola and other epidemics.
In other Capitol Hill happenings, supporters of the 340B Drug Discount program urge lawmakers not to make changes in it as part of the "Cures" bill that would overhaul the FDA's drug approval process. Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, gives a bleak VA progress report.
At a meeting of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, pointed out that observation care status can cost Medicare beneficiaries thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs.
A study estimates that 31 million people, many with private health insurance coverage, face unaffordable medical bills when seeking care. That forces many to put off doctor visits.
The study, published in Health Affairs, looked at plans offered on California's health insurance exchange. Elsewhere, exchange rate hike proposals get scrutiny, and Colorado officials propose upping their exchange staff and move to bring their marketing in-house.
The letter from Republicans in Congress seeks continuation of the funding for hospitals with large numbers of uninsured patients, but federal officials say expanding the Medicaid program under the health law is a better option. Many Florida Republicans oppose that. In the meantime, a report shows that emergency room visits in New Hampshire fell 22 percent following Medicaid expansion there.
CareFirst, a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, is the third major U.S. health insurer to disclose this year that hackers breached its computer systems. The attack occurred in June 2014.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets examine health care issues in Tennessee, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, Colorado, California and Texas.
And in Missouri, Aetna will pay a $4.5 million fine for covering some elective abortions for ineligible women who didn't buy an optional policy, as required by state law.
A scathing report highlights the tough conditions for Illinois inmates who suffer from mental illnesses. At a Chicago jail, those problems will have to be tackled by a clinical psychologist who was appointed to lead the facility. Meanwhile, an Arizona jail where half the prisoners are Native American is taking a cultural approach to treating drug addictions.
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