The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new requirements for Medicare Advantage plan provider organization directories starting in the 2029 contract year. The requirements would ...
On October 21, 2026, Risant Health and INTEGRIS Health announced a definitive agreement for INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest non-profit health system, to become Risant Health’s third member, ...
Poor physical and mental health costs the U.S. economy an estimated $2.33 trillion annually in lost workforce productivity. U.S. workers lose an average of 63.4 productive workdays each year ...
More older adults want senior housing than there are available homes for people to live in. The senior housing planning pipeline, while sizable, remains heavily concentrated in earlier stages: ...
The uninsured rate among U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 increased from 8.9% in 2024 to 11.2% in 2026, a statistically significant rise that occurred before major Medicaid eligibility ...
Among U.S. adults who used glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications for weight loss or chronic conditions and drank alcohol when they started treatment, 44.2% reported reducing ...
Workers with employer-sponsored family health insurance paid an average of $7,471 toward their annual premiums in 2026, a 9% increase from 2025. The total annual premium for family coverage, ...
Between October 2025 and October 2026, the New York Medicaid program cut fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement rates three times for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 97153, which is used for ...
Nearly half (48%) of the approximately 31,400 residential care communities (RCCs) in the United States reported having residents with all four of the following conditions in 2025: Alzheimer's disease ...
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance to low-income households, declined by 5.5 million people, or 13%, between July 2025 and July 2026.
California's Proposition 47 criminal justice reform contributed to an estimated 10% increase in unsheltered homelessness between 2015 and 2019, representing approximately 7,000 additional individuals ...
The average HSA balance increased 16.5% from $4,747 in 2023 to $5,532 in 2024, outpacing a 5.9% increase in out-of-pocket health care spending during the same period. But only 18% ...