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Texas state Rep. John Bucy III, D-Austin, prefiled two bills Nov. 9 for the 2027 legislative session that focus on expanding Medicaid in the state. HB 101 and HB 102 would extend medical assistance to all applicants for whom federal…

St. Louis-based Ascension will close an insurance unit and lay off 51 workers as it moves administration of its employee health plan to an outside company, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Nov. 7. The unit, Ascension Care Management Insurance Holdings…

Surgical access often looks like a scheduling challenge — but at scale, it’s a strategic growth lever. Take Lee Health, where fragmented systems, rigid block schedules and manual coordination created the illusion of constrained capacity, even when usable OR time…

Nov 12, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST

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Mike Yetter is joining WellSense Health Plan, under Boston Medical Center Health System, as CIO, according to a Nov. 9 LinkedIn post. Mr. Yetter most recently worked at Jefferson Health Plans, part of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health. Mr. Yetter’s LinkedIn profile…

CMS is ending its Medicare Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration at the end of 2026, bringing standalone drug coverage back to “traditional market conditions,” per the agency. After the Inflation Reduction Act redesigned Part D to lower drug cost-sharing, Part…

Patient access is often the first place health systems apply artificial intelligence. Scheduling, confirmations, cancellations and reschedules are high-volume, rules-heavy and chronically understaffed which is why voice agents and other automation tend to land here first. But the gap between…

Nov 12, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST

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Health systems across the country are making very different bets on whether to be in the insurance business. Carle Health, Michigan Medicine, Memorial Hermann, Providence, and UMass Memorial have all shuttered or sold their insurance arms within the last two…

The attorneys general of Oregon, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington are suing HHS and CMS, arguing the federal government cannot pull existing Medicaid funding from states that don’t adopt the Medicaid work requirement in HR 1. The lawsuit, filed Nov.…


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