When you buy an insurance policy, you will pay a premium payment monthly or annually. In exchange for that premium, your insurance provider agrees to cover a portion of your healthcare bills as outlined in your plan policy. You are still responsible for some costs, like deductibles and copay...
This healthcare reform has already begun, with the open enrollment for the first year of the ACA’s healthcare exchange marketplace ending on March 31, 2014. “Obamacare” was enacted with the goals of increasing the quality and affordability of health insurance, lowering the uninsured rate by...
Insurance companies are also wondering whether or not they will have to pay a tax. Its status is unclear as the president continues to press Congress to repeal and replace the ACA. Amid this uncertainty, Anthem said Friday it will only offer off-exchange plans in two counties and one city...
The Master of Public Health Program at the University of Virginia offers an individualized and interdisciplinary experience that focuses on the competencies professionals need to improve the health of communities and individuals. The curriculum provides graduate professional training in quantitative and qualita...
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill to introduce more stringent requirements to needle exchange programs that critics say will make it harder to get clean needles amid a spike in HIV cases in the state.