Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Trump administration’s top Medicare official is coming to the defense of the 2027 Medicare Advantage rate notice, after the rule sparked a wave of backlash from the health insurance sector. The CMS proposed a flat rate update for next year, which won’t adequately cover higher spending on seniors in the privatized Medicare program, insurers say. Regulators also proposed reforms to MA risk adjustment that would restrict insurers’ ability to inflate members’ risk scores and, correspondingly, their reimbursement from the federal government. The…
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Residents in a iced-over swath of Mississippi began to confront the ugly truth Monday as they shivered in ever-colder and darkened houses: Recovery from the state’s worst ice storm in more than 30 years could take a week or more. While the weekend’s winter storm impacted tens of millions of Americans, the most lingering effects are concentrated in a band from far eastern Texas across north Louisiana, Mississippi and into Nashville, Tennessee. More snow and ice were expected in coming days as another stormfront moves in. Parents were worrying about the 20,000-plus college students at the University of Mississippi, which…
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions, January 20, 2025PURPOSE: Initial rescissions of Executive Orders and Actions issued by President Biden.Among these orders are several that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and global health security, such as Executive Order 13987 (Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security), which among other things established the National Security Council Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense and a Senior Director position to oversee it.What Happens Next/Implications: Given that most of the provisions…
The Howden-driven talent war has cost Brown & Brown $23 million in revenue, according to J. Powell Brown, the broker’s president and chief executive officer. “As of today, approximately 275 of our former teammates have joined this start-up, taking with them customers currently representing known annual revenues of $23 million,” Brown said during an analysts’ call on Jan. 27 to discuss the broker’s 2025 fourth quarter and full-year results. “As we’ve done in the past, we will defend our rights in court and already have obtained an injunction,” he added, Most of those former employees, he said, were not producers…
NEED TO KNOW After the D.C. plane crash, of the first heartbreaking stories that made headlines was from Hamaad Raza, who spoke to reporters at the airport about how his wife texted him 20 minutes before the plane was scheduled to landOne year later, he’s opening up to PEOPLE about their final moments — and how he’s keeping her close“She made me feel incredibly loved, supported and lucky,” he says of wife Asra Hussain. “She wanted to make me feel special every single day and she always did” In the immediate aftermath of the D.C. plane crash — before officials…