Author: Andrew Cass

President Joe Biden announced a plan to expand Medicaid and ACA coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients.

The Humana Foundation is investing $1 million to boost mental health resources in Louisville, Ky., following a shooting that killed five people at a bank in the city and another shooting outside a community college that killed one person. Both…

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma and Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center have agreed to extend their current contract through the end of 2023, the Stillwater News Press reported April 11. 

Medicaid outreach flexibilities that have been granted during the redetermination process should be made permanent, said Shannon McMahon, Kaiser Permanente's executive director of Medicaid policy.   

The Justice Department will seek an injunction to halt a Texas federal judge's ruling that struck down an ACA provision requiring insurance companies to provide coverage for preventive services, CNN reported April 11. 

Twelve executives make up CVS Health's leadership team. Here is more information about those executives, according to the company's website: 

Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare could go out of network with Cigna if the sides are unable to reach a new contract by May 15, the Louisville Courier Journal reported April 7. 

CMS issued a final rule April 5 that, among other things, aims to streamline Medicare Advantage and Part D prior authorizations and clamp down on misleading marketing practices. 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare reached an agreement after months of negotiations over care costs, The Dallas Morning News reported March 31. 

From groups weighing in on CMS' proposed rule to reform the process, to UnitedHealthcare announcing plans to eliminate 20 percent of its current requirements, here are 10 updates about prior authorization Becker's has reported since March 13: