The National Committee for Quality Assurance, one of the top health care accrediting bodies nationally, gave Kaiser Permanente of Colorado’s commercial and Medicare health plans the highest ratings in Colorado. The Medicare health plan is one of only 5 Medicare health plans in the U.S. to earn a 5-star rating from NCQA, which looked at … Read more
Throughout its 2024 Oktane conference, identity management provider Oktane talked up its plans to expand its partner ecosystem. Executives spoke of initiatives ranging from the proposed IPSIE standard and its roster of high-profile collaborators in the cloud and SaaS field to the updated Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) and its potential for smaller partners to collaborate … Read more
Ratings reflect high-quality care and service Every year, CMS publishes Medicare Advantage (Part C) and Medicare prescription drug plan (Part D) ratings. Consumers can use the ratings to compare the quality of Medicare plans. To develop the ratings, CMS considers many areas of care and service. For example, CMS looks at how well health plans … Read more
During the open enrollment period for 2024 health coverage, more than 21.4 million people enrolled in private qualified health plans (QHPs) through the Marketplaces (exchanges) nationwide. This was a 31% increase over the previous record high set in 2023, when 16.4 million people enrolled in Marketplace QHPs. In addition to the 21.4 million QHP enrollments, … Read more
A finalized federal rule announced by the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor in March 2024, has imposed new nationwide duration limits on short-term limited duration insurance (STLDI) plans. The rule – which applies to plans sold or issued on or after September 1, 2024 – limits new STLDI plans to three-month … Read more
