Author: Jakob Emerson

California’s ACA marketplace, Covered California, is partnering with Google to automate parts of the coverage enrollment process using artificial intelligence.

Eight managed care organizations have filed notices of intent to challenge Florida's recent Medicaid contract awards, which provide health coverage to more than 3.4 million people, per Florida Politics.

The Biden administration has launched an online portal for reporting "potentially unfair and anticompetitive" healthcare practices to the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the FTC.

Elevance Health posted $2.2 billion in net income during the first quarter, a nearly 13% increase compared to the same period last year, according to the company's earnings report published April 18.

In 2024, at least 20 top executives previously with UnitedHealth Group's Optum have announced their departures for new positions with companies across the country. 

Two former executives with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina have completed a $2.1 million seed round for their startup aimed at finding healthcare services outside the U.S. for patients, TriangleInno reported April 16.

Legislation has been introduced in Mississippi that would transition the state to a state-run ACA exchange.

UnitedHealth Group posted a $1.4 billion net loss in the first quarter of 2024 following the sale of its Brazil operations and the unprecedented cyberattack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary in late February. Despite the losses, the company beat investor…

Blue Shield of California launched its virtual-first health plan in partnership with Accolade and TeleMed2U in January 2023.

Cigna's Evernorth Health Services is building a new innovation hub in Galway, Ireland.