Author: Jakob Emerson

Amherst, N.Y.-based Fallon Health Weinberg is closing a long-term Medicaid managed care plan and laying off 31 employees between Dec. 15 and Jan. 12, 2024, according to a WARN notice filed with the state.

HHS and the Treasury Department are providing $245 million in funding to the Colorado Division of Insurance for its reinsurance program and public option health plan.

UnitedHealthcare has named Toyosi Okurounmu, MD, as national chief medical officer and vice president of medical leadership and clinical performance for its community and state division, which provides managed Medicaid services across 30 states.

GoodRx has launched a new feature that allows providers to check a patient's insurance benefits when prescribing medications to better understand the final cost.

Highmark Health Plans has named Ja'Ron Bridges senior vice president and CFO, effective Sept. 25.

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon has named Michael Cole as market president, effective Sept. 8. 

North Carolina's Medicaid expansion could be delayed until 2024, North Carolina Health News reported Aug. 29.

Nearly three weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfires in more than a century, health insurers are suspending prior authorization requirements and coordinating access to care for residents across Hawaii.

The nation's largest health insurers are no longer just insurers — nearly all have restructured and grown into health services giants capable of paying for care and providing it too. 

Anonymous employees with Texas HHS have filed a whistleblower complaint against the agency over "numerous and growing system issues" they say are leading to incorrectly terminated health coverage during the Medicaid redeterminations process, according to an Aug. 24 Nexstar report.