Author: Jakob Emerson

The Illinois General Assembly has passed legislation that expands Medicaid coverage to midwife services and to noncitizen residents ages 42 and older.

CMS sent a letter to Texas' Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program director April 22 to say that it would no longer work to rescind an extension of a Texas Medicaid waiver.

The Kaiser Family Foundation calculated monthly average ACA marketplace benchmark premiums per state in 2022. The national average is $438.

Since 2010, 23 states have introduced a total of 49 bills to create a public health plan option within their respective marketplaces, according to a report from the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

The Business Group on Health named seven payers as winners of the Best Employers Award for Excellence in Health and Well-being.

UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum has quietly acquired at least two independent primary care groups in Oregon, according to The Lund Report.

Despite over a billion dollars in losses in 2021, Bright Health Group's CEO took in a compensation package far greater than other payer CEOs.

Bechara Choucair, MD, is the senior vice president and chief health officer at Kaiser Permanente. He penned an op-ed in CalMatters April 19 to explain why he believes the payer-provider's proposed no-bid Medi-Cal contract with the state will benefit vulnerable…

Two University of Southern California centers filed a lawsuit April 19 against L.A. Care Health Plan to order the release of unredacted quality-of-care scorecards.

The number of Texans who received health coverage in 2022 under the Affordable Care Act grew 42 percent from the year prior, according to a study from the Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation.