CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Johns Hopkins Medicine have signed a multiyear contract following a dispute over reimbursement rates that would have left hundreds of thousands of people out of network.
Author: Jakob Emerson
UnitedHealth Group has sold $9 billion of bonds that will help to refinance short-term debt the company took on to partially fund its purchase of Change Healthcare for $7.8 billion, Bloomberg reported Oct. 25.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has named Latisha Hamilton-Williams as chief people officer, effective Nov. 14.
Aetna will offer a free subscription to Apple Fitness+ to its 3.2 million Medicare Advantage members starting next year.
Centene posted $738 million in net income during the third quarter and awarded Cigna's Express Scripts a PBM contract, according to the company's earnings report released Oct. 25.
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Humana is reportedly exiting the Colorado group insurance market, Colorado Politics reported Oct. 24.
Humana and Boston-based Cohere Health are expanding their partnership again to enable a digitized prior authorization process nationwide for cardiovascular and surgical services.
About a third, or 31.6 percent, of the 57 Medicare Advantage plans that earned five stars from CMS in 2023 are a part of the Alliance of Community Health Plans, a trade group representing nonprofit payers.
Elevance Health has expanded its home-based nursing management company, myNEXUS, to Medicare Advantage members in 15 states, CEO Gail Boudreaux said Oct. 19 during a call with investors.
Elevance Health, formerly Anthem, is now the largest commercial health insurer in the nation by total membership, according to the company's CEO, Gail Boudreaux.