Moving my fiction writing to @jenniestt.bsky.social -- everything else is still here.

While your plan may allow you to take advantage of this new rule, it’s important to weigh whether taking money from your retirement savings would make sense, experts say. #Retirement #LongTermCare #401k

The complaint alleges that manufacturers required PBMs to inflate drug prices to gain formulary access and then paid an undisclosed amount of the cost back to the #PBM. #RxCosts #Insulin #Drugmakers #Litigation #Virginia

The new updates would require health plans and insurers to simplify how they organize data, making consumer-facing cost tools more easily accessible and cutting unnecessary information. #BrokenClocks #PriceTransparency #Rulemaking buff.ly/OS1gdK4 (Now do hospitals.)

Frontal-temporal dementia. bsky.app/profile/rhon...

In other news, I ...accidentally wrote a series bible tonight... #amWriting #WriteSky #oops

"Absolutely nothing happened today in sector 83 by 9 by 12."

Weekend Warriors: think twice before you pick up that snow shovel. #STUMP #weather buff.ly/LEN76NG

Reminder: Go Get Your Refills! buff.ly/jmd5nL4 #healthcoverage #holidays #prescriptions

The lawmakers argued that Elevance’s approach circumvents the #IndependentDisputeResolution process established under the #NoSurprisesAct. #Elevance argues the current situation was never the intent of the Act or of the #IDR process.

Capital District Physician Health Plan vs St Peter’s Health Partners buff.ly/ToAGsCl #networkcontractwatch #capitaldistrictphysicianhealthplan #newyork #stpetershealthpartners #cdphp #sphp

The bill, the #PBM Fiduciary, Accountability, Integrity and Reform Act, or PBM FAIR Act, would add a PBM #fiduciary section to #ERISA. In addition to bipartisan support, the ERISA Industry Committee is supporting it. #legislation #RxCosts

Cigna vs Tenet Healthcare buff.ly/XBqMs9F #networkcontractwatch #arizona #california #cigna #florida #massachusetts #michigan #southcarolina #tenethealthcare #tennessee #texas

One reason I often prefer reading/writing #FanFiction is because nobody wastes time on long descriptions of setting/place. (It's also why I'm not a fan of 19th C. writers or #Tolkein.) Really, I have an imagination, just sketch it out for me! I can fill in the rest on my own. #TrustTheReader

#WIPSnips #FanFiction #ScarecrowAndMrsKing #amWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Evening/daily word count: 4,053. That's much better. #amWriting #amRevising #FanFiction #Blogging #whew

Evening /daily word count: 1,026. A little slender for a day spent writing, but I also did a -lot- of development work as I'd been going too fast before. #amWriting #FanFiction #amEditing

For the record? Today concludes my 52nd straight week of posting updates on #SocialMedia via @Buffer. My question to everyone reading: are my updates actually useful/interesting? #anniversary

Being a Writer, Pt. 1 buff.ly/FrRdsks #Writing #onwriting #writingprocess

Evening/daily word count: 1,999. #amWriting #FanFiction

For all you so-called "Christians" celebrating the attacks in Nigeria: How do you differentiate between the guilty and the innocent from the air? Who would Jesus massacre? #NotInMyName #KeepYourChristmasPresent

Here's mine! "Leia picked up the remains of their meal and dumped it over his head." #WriteSky #FaveLineFriday #amWriting #FanFiction #StarWars

This Needs To Stop!🛑 Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"? There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.

RESOLVED: UnitedHealthcare vs Bronson Healthcare buff.ly/qMZS6OT #networkcontractwatch #bronsonhealthcare #michigan #unitedhealthcare

We are getting closer and closer to Chinese-style control of media platforms: for many on the continent and elsewhere, however, the move comes as an amplification of the Trump administration’s own crackdown on viewpoints that don’t align with its own. #censorship

Vaccine Guidance is Changing. Is Your Coverage? buff.ly/bD8dXVf #healthcoverage #preventivecare #vaccines

The agreements reflect the #Trump administration’s priorities and are geared toward providing less aid and more mutual benefits. #MyOpinion Or, in other words, the U.S. is strong-arming poorer countries into a choice between starvation and exploitation.

The Social Security Administration aims to cut visits to field offices by nearly 15 million annually. This is making it harder for Americans to access in-person services—and their benefits. This is not "modernizing" Social Security.

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence

"Will face"? How about "are facing"?

In NJ, managers of the private concentration camp funded with our tax dollars and being filled by the Trump regime give women TWO sanitary pads for the length of their period. Withholding of sanitary supplies IS ALSO a feature of prisons in the United States.

Here's a pre-emptive move thanks to #PriceTransparency. This web initiative posted service costs at #DartmouthHealth, the #UniversityOfVermontMedicalCenter, #NorthwesternMedicalCenter and independent facilities to show that they were higher than average. #BCBSVt #PriceEquity #VT #NH

In a related development, #BradleyMedicalCenter is also demanding higher reimbursement rates based on those a competitor hospital gets. #MyOpinion Expect more of this as #PriceTransparency starts going into effect. #UnitedHealthcare #Ohio

The hospital is seeking damages and a court order to raise rates, at least to the level of Montgomery-based #BaptistMedicalCenter. #JacksonHospital #AL #Bankruptcy #PayorReimbursement #ProviderContracting

Ennnh. I'm not so sure. The #CreightonMethod (which my parents successfully used) and #NaPro have both been around for a while. And it took the standard #GYN establishment THIRTY YEARS to figure out why I was infertile...just in time for me to start menopause.

The requests from the county-level election boards are only for the March primary elections. But they're being closely watched by political insiders, as they could also foreshadow strategies to come in the November general election. #NC #VoterRights

The bill now heads to the #Pennsylvania state Senate for consideration. Other states are taking similar steps, including #Illinois, #NewYork, #California, and #Washington. #Vaccines #CDCRecommendations #PreventiveCare

"If there is no extension provided, rising #ACAMarketplace premiums could significantly impact #employer-sponsored #HealthInsurance plans." Article goes on to explain how. Good stuff!

The new updates would address this by requiring #HealthInsurance plans to simplify how they organize data, making consumer-facing cost tools more easily accessible. #PriceTransparency #BrokenClocks

Despite the current landscape, some larger #employers are considering #ICHRA plans, but their approach may look different than their smaller counterparts. #IndividualPolicies #HealthInsurance

Evening word count: 850. #amWriting #FanFiction

About 62% of the new slots will support #PrimaryCare and #psychiatry programs, #CMS said in a news release. #ResidentSlots #PhysicianShortage

Cigna vs Lexington Health buff.ly/iajIJbD #networkcontractwatch #cigna #lexingtonhealth #southcarolina

"With today’s advanced simulation technology, we can prepare our medics for the battlefield while reducing harm to #animals." So why are they just doing it now? #AnimalWelfare #CombatMedicTraining

Insurance companies “are making so much money, and they have to make less, a lot less,” #Trump said. #MyOpinion Maybe he should look at profit margins instead of dollars. And do the same for hospital systems, too. #Ugh #Legislation

UnitedHealthcare vs TriHealth buff.ly/7Yx6x8s #networkcontractwatch #ohio #trihealth #unitedhealthcare

The #payer-#provider relationship is continually evolving. Becker’s connected with #HealthInsurance leaders to learn which part of that relationship they would change -- and the answers are both consistent and provider-friendly.

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

Daily word count: 1,683. #amWriting #FanFiction

Evening/daily word count: 2,116. #amWriting #blogging #FanFiction