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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is encouraging gig employers such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Postmates to promote Affordable Care Act plans to employees. This is an effort to raise awareness of reduced subsidies that could help gig workers sign up for coverage through the federal platform. Gig workers set their own hours, and are only paid for the hours they
A newly-launched program from Lyft is helping patients and hospitals to avoid missed medical appointments.
Through Lyft Pass for Healthcare, eligible patients, health plan members and Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries can use the Lyft app to request rides to their medical appointments without cost.
The program allows the sponsoring healthcare or social services organization to cover the cost of the rides. Sponsors are given control over the service by setting a total budget, a maximum cost per ride, the pickup and drop-off locations, and when the pass can be used.
Sponsoring organizations covering the ride issue Lyft passes to their riders for use when they request a ride. Lyft then provides the organizations with reports on usage and spending.
Exchange shopping approved for more than half a million DoD, Coast Guard civilians 3 hours ago DoD and Coast Guard civilians will soon be able to shop in exchange stores in the U.S. DoD civilians stationed outside the U.S. have exchange shopping privileges. (AAFES) More than half a million Defense Department and Coast Guard civilian employees with a Common Access Card will be able to shop in military exchange stores by mid-May, according to a new Department of Defense directive. The directive extends in-store and online exchange shopping privileges to appropriated fund and non-appropriated fund civilian employees who work in the U.S., and in U.S. territories and possessions, according to the memorandum signed by Virginia Penrod, acting under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. It was effective April 12, and within 30 days, these shoppers will be allowed in Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores, Navy Exchange stores, and Marine Corps exchanges.
Here’s how much you’re saving in military commissaries January 26 Socially-distanced, masked shoppers wait to pay for their groceries April 16, 2020, inside the commissary at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman/Air Force) After a couple of years of increases, commissary savings slipped in U.S. stores in 2020, according to results from the most recent commissary savings report. Savings in U.S. commissaries decreased by 1.2 points down to 21.1 percent in 2020 from the 22.3 percent savings calculated in 2019. Commissary officials compare prices in each geographic area to determine how much, on average, a commissary shopper could expect to save on grocery purchases compared with local commercial grocers in that area outside the gate.