Author: Jakob Emerson

Attorneys representing Blue Cross Blue Shield members in a $2.67 billion antitrust settlement with the BCBS Association asked a federal appeals court Oct. 5 to speed up the objection process.

Bright Health Group is significantly reducing its business operations and will no longer offer individual and family health plans through Bright Healthcare or offer Medicare Advantage plans outside California and Florida.

To resolve an issue with health coverage, contacting your insurance company through Twitter may be more useful than contacting their customer service department, according to a testimonial published Oct. 5 in the oncology publication, Cure magazine.

Though Medicare Advantage was designed to help lower federal healthcare expenditures, payers have exploited the program through elaborate schemes that make patients appear sicker than they actually are — thereby leading to higher payments from CMS, according to an Oct.…

With UnitedHealth Group's purchase of Change Healthcare now complete, TPG Capital has finalized its acquisition of ClaimsXten for $2.2 billion.

Health Care Service Corp. said Oct. 7 it has finalized its purchase of Trustmark Health Benefits from employee benefits firm Trustmark for an undisclosed amount.

Payers are going to raise premiums across the board because of growing cost pressures on providers such as inflation and workforce disruptions, according to a new brief from Fitch Ratings.

Virginia has awarded a contract to software firm GetInsured to help the state build its own health insurance exchange, instead of using healthcare.gov.

Aetna and Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant Health have ended their dispute over reimbursement rates and signed an in-network contract that went into effect Oct. 1.

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Oklahoma, the company's Medicaid and D-SNP division, has named Mallory Van Horn CEO.