Author: Andrew Cass

UnitedHealth Group outlined its five strategic growth priorities at its annual investor conference Nov. 29: 

UnitedHealth Group expects 2024 revenues to be at least $400 billion. 

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia and Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System have agreed to a new contract that will keep Wellstar patients in network with the payer through May 2027. 

UnitedHealthcare is updating its prior authorization and concurrent review process for home health services that are delegated to Home & Community Care, the payer's home care division. 

About 4.6 million people have signed up for health insurance through ACA marketplaces as of Nov. 18. 

Cigna Healthcare has named Hisham Radwan CEO of Cigna Insurance Saudi Arabia as it becomes the first international insurance company authorized to operate through a branch in the country. 

Connecticut hospital regulators want more information from UnitedHealth subsidiary SCA Health over its attempts to acquire controlling interest in a surgical center in the state, CT Insider reported Nov. 21.  

Georgia Republican lawmakers heard testimony on possible Medicaid expansion for the first time in a decade, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Nov. 17. 

From UnitedHealth Group facing a proposed class-action suit over Medicare Advantage care denials, to Elevance settling with a former executive who left for a similar role at Molina, here are six lawsuits and settlements involving payers that Becker's has reported…

From facing a proposed class-action suit over Medicare Advantage care denials to implementing the second wave of its plan to cut 20 percent of its prior authorization requirements, here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group Becker's reported since Oct. 31.