Health insurance
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| 2025 | From the 2025-26 financial year, the Medicare Levy Surcharge thresholds will be $101,000 for singles and $202,000 for couples. |
| 2025 |
Health insurance in the United States
Projected public healthcare spending expected to reach approximately half of federal mandated spending.
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| January 1 2025 |
Copayment
Medicare Prescription Payment Plan begins, introducing a new method for patients to pay copayments indirectly through their insurance company for Medicare Part D.
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| 2024 | Medibank reached approximately 4.2 million customers, establishing itself as Australia's largest private health insurance provider. |
| 2024 |
Health insurance in the United States
California became the first U.S. state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants.
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| 2024 | California Department of Managed Healthcare (DMHC) launched an investigation into Kaiser Permanente's contingency plans during the Southern California mental health strike, focusing on ensuring patient care standards were maintained. |
| 2024 | ESIC announced recruitment for IMO Grade-II (GDMO Sub-Cadre) positions using disclosure lists from the UPSC Combined Medical Services Examination conducted in 2022 and 2023. |
| December 13 2024 |
Sicko
In the aftermath of the Killing of Brian Thompson, Moore uploaded the entire film Sicko to YouTube on his official channel, arguing for health care reform as a non-violent solution.
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| November 2024 | The anesthesia coverage policy was canceled shortly after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, though the cancellation was likely due to pre-existing backlash. |
| November 2024 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York, Connecticut, and Missouri announced they would cease covering anesthesia costs for surgeries exceeding a time limit, sparking controversy with the American Society of Anesthesiologists calling it a 'money grab'. |
| October 21 2024 | 2,400 Kaiser Permanente Southern California mental health therapists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses initiated a strike demanding adequate staffing, equitable pay, and restoration of pension benefits. |
| October 1 2024 |
Social Health Authority
The Social Health Authority began its operations, taking over the responsibilities of public health insurance management in Kenya.
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| August 2024 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, Montana, and Oklahoma stopped paying for surgical anesthesia for patients with complex health conditions, citing cost-saving measures and facing strong opposition from the medical community. |
| June 21 2024 | Risant Health announced its acquisition of Cone Health, a hospital system based in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| January 2024 | Elevance Health filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) challenging changes in the Medicare Advantage star rating methodology, which could impact key bonus payouts due to significant rating decreases in 2024. |
| January 2024 |
Universal health care by country
New Zealand reinstated prescription charges under the Sixth National Government.
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| 2023 | nib Health Funds announces Dylan Alcott as a new ambassador and appoints him as Chief Motivation Officer, expanding their sports and media representation. |
| 2023 | Achieved a seat at number 78 on the Forbes Global 2000 list, demonstrating continued global business prominence. |
| 2023 | Elevance announced plans to rebrand its Amerigroup business as Wellpoint, with the rebranding to take effect in 2024. |
| 2023 |
Healthcare in India
Government health sector expenditure continued to be 2.2% of GDP according to the Economic Survey 2022-23.
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| 2023 |
Universal health care by country
Congress approved a decree to dissolve INSABI (Institute of Health for Welfare), marking a significant change in the national healthcare system.
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| November 2023 |
Sehat Sahulat Program
A Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) report revealed the program had enrolled 43 million families, covering 190 million people, with over 14.6 million using health facilities in empaneled hospitals.
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| November 22 2023 |
Social Health Authority
The Social Health Insurance Act was enacted, officially establishing the Social Health Authority (SHA) to replace the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).
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| November 9 2023 | A new four-year contract was ratified by 98.5% of the 85,000 members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, effectively ending the October strike. |
| October 13 2023 | Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative agreement with striking workers, which included setting minimum hourly wages at $25 in California and $23 in other states, and providing a 21% wage increase over four years. |
| October 4 2023 | Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers initiated a nationwide strike, which became the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history, lasting until October 7, 2023. |
| June 2023 |
Universal health care by country
New Zealand briefly abolished prescription charges.
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| April 26 2023 | Kaiser announced it would acquire Geisinger Health System, which would operate as an independent subsidiary under a new mixed-profit group called Risant Health. |
| January 23 2023 | Elevance entered a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, expanding its state presence to 15 states and adding 1.9 million new members. |
| January 1 2023 | At the beginning of 2023, The Permanente Medical Group had 11,225 medical professionals and 186 locations. |
| 2022 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota reported having 3,500 employees, indicating significant growth and organizational presence in the state healthcare insurance market. |
| 2022 | Blue Cross Blue Shield Association settled an antitrust investigation, agreeing to allow competition among member companies under non-Blue names while maintaining regional exclusivity for regional licenses. |
| 2022 | BCBSWY formally expressed opposition to the Pharmacy Benefit Managers Act enhancements through Wyoming Senate File 0036, demonstrating their stance on healthcare policy in the state. |
| 2022 | Elevance Health concluded a consecutive run on the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Corporate Equality Index's Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality list. |
| 2022 | Elevance Health achieves record revenue of $156,595 million, with employee count increasing to 102,300. |
| 2022 | Ranked 20th on the Fortune 500 list based on 2021 revenues, highlighting the company's substantial market position in the healthcare industry. |
| 2022 | Twenty-one of Elevance Health's affiliated Medicaid plans earned health equity accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). |
| 2022 |
Healthcare in India
Health Financing and Technology Assessment (HeFTA) unit was established within the National Health Authority (NHA) to enhance evidence-based decision-making processes in health technology assessment.
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| 2022 |
Healthcare in India
Healthcare funding by central and state governments increased substantially to $74 billion, marking a significant expansion of healthcare financial support in India.
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| 2022 |
Healthcare in India
Economic Survey 2022-23 reported that government health sector expenditure reached 2.1% of GDP, increasing from 1.6% in the previous fiscal year.
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| 2022 |
Health policy
EU member states decided to expand cancer screening focus to include prostate, lung, and gastric cancer, broadening the previous screening program.
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| 2022 | OHIP introduced a dental care program for low-income seniors, providing free routine dental services for seniors 65 years or older with an annual net income of $22,200 or less for single seniors, or $37,100 or less for couples. |
| 2022 |
European Health Insurance Card
The UK introduced a new UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to replace the EHIC for UK citizens, with specific eligibility criteria for continued healthcare access in European countries.
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| December 2022 | Reached a new contractual agreement with University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) after a legal dispute and defamation lawsuit. |
| December 2022 |
Health policy
EU health ministers approved Council conclusions on vaccination, focusing on fighting vaccine reluctance and preparing for future public health challenges through EU cooperation.
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| December 1 2022 | Reports indicated the hacker group had released all remaining compromised customer files. |
| November 2022 | Hacker group allegedly linked to Russian ransomware group REvil released Medibank customer data on a dark web blog after the company refused to pay a US$9.7m ransom. |
| October 2022 | A judge ordered Anthem to proceed to trial in the Medicare diagnostics fraud lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice. |
| October 23 2022 | Medibank announced receiving an additional 1,000 customer records from hackers, expanding the potential data breach to potentially impact all 3.9 million customer records across Medibank, ahm, and international student databases. |
| October 12 2022 | Medibank CEO David Koczkar reported unusual network activity consistent with potential ransomware precursors. The company took AHM and international student policy management systems offline and requested an ASX trading halt after hackers claimed to have stolen 200 gigabytes of customer data. |
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