The majority of health plan executives are focused on growth and have a favorable outlook for 2025, according to a Dec. 12 survey from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Author: Jakob Emerson
The year 2024 proved to be a pivotal and tumultuous period for the health insurance industry, defined by the shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO and the largest cyberattack in the sector's history. Legal and regulatory battles over Medicare Advantage, significant…
The year 2024 will be remembered as one full of unprecedented challenges and turmoil for the nation's largest healthcare company.
UnitedHealth Group has optimized its ability to increase Medicare Advantage members' sickness scores and corresponding government payments by directly employing thousands of physicians at Optum and integrating sophisticated software tools into clinical workflows, according to a Dec. 29 investigation from…
Climate change is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for the health insurance industry.
UnitedHealth Group and home health company Amedisys have agreed to extend the deadline for a planned $3.3 billion merger due to a legal challenge by the Department of Justice.
Aetna is laying off 164 remote employees "due to an unexpected loss of contract in Kansas."
ICHRA broker platform Remodel Health has raised more than $100 million in growth funding.
Startup insurer Sidecar Health has inked a transparent pricing agreement with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Our healthcare system badly lags other industrialized nations in terms of what we spend and the outcomes we achieve, and the culprit is fairly obvious: we spend five times our peer nations on administrative expenses. How bad is it? Our doctors…
