Author: Jakob Emerson

Georgia has approved 265 people to take part in the nation's only Medicaid program that requires proof of work to receive benefits, the Georgia Recorder reported Aug. 10.

A growing number of older adults and low-income individuals are losing health insurance coverage because of a reimbursement rate dispute between Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health. 

Select Health and Kroger Health are launching co-branded Medicare Advantage plans across four states in 2024.

A physician, health equity executive and Baltimore native is now overseeing healthcare coverage for more than 330,000 of the most vulnerable individuals in Maryland.

Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System is considering dropping all Medicare Advantage plans and is encouraging its senior patients not to enroll in the private Medicare plans during the next open enrollment period. 

Former employees with UnitedHealth Group's Optum and its subsidiaries have taken to social media in August regarding an unknown number of layoffs they say are occurring across the company.

Select Health, the nonprofit insurance arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, has a new leader at the helm of its largest market, but he is no stranger to the company or local healthcare community.

Health Care Service Corp., the parent company of BCBS Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expanding Medicare plans to 99 additional counties next year, pending regulatory approvals.

Optum's proposed $3.29 billion acquisition of home health provider Amedisys is facing scrutiny from the Justice Department, according to an Aug. 10 regulatory filing.

Officials in three states are pushing back on payers looking to raise members' premiums in 2024.