Author: Jakob Emerson

From international ventures to BCBS plan purchases, these are eight payer market expansions reported by Becker's since Jan. 1:

Carelon, the care delivery arm of Elevance Health, has opened its first brick-and-mortar integrated healthcare facility.

These are eight recent policy changes made by CMS that have been reported by Becker's since March :

Cigna physicians deny large batches of claims without reviewing them first, a process that may save the company millions of dollars every year when members don't appeal, ProPublica reported March 25.

Optum has purchased Middletown, N.Y.-based Crystal Run Healthcare, a multispecialty physician group with over 400 providers across more than 30 locations.

LHC Group was an attractive acquisition for UnitedHealth Group because the home health company is headquartered in Louisiana and has a large number of employees working in the office, the Acadiana Advocate reported. 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' former president and CEO, Andrew Dreyfus, has launched a course at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health that revolves around a central question: Can health insurers be good?

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is seeking contract proposals from payers as it creates a new health plan for U.S. Postal Service employees and their families.

Since last fall, several state insurance departments have made moves to restrict the financial autonomy of two startup health plans, Bright Health and Friday Health Plans.

Six health insurers have been ranked among Newsweek's 300 greatest workplaces for LGBTQ workers in 2023.