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Author: Jakob Emerson

Insurers, health systems, state health plans and self-funded employers are all grappling with how to cover the high cost of GLP-1 medications, with some large organizations limiting coverage or dropping benefits entirely in 2024.

Cigna Healthcare is exiting Medicare Advantage markets or making service area reductions in eight states for 2025, according to a Sept. 18 post from insurance brokerage firm Pinnacle Financial Services.

West Virginia residents who receive health coverage on the ACA exchange receive the largest premium subsidies on average, while Minnesota residents receive the least, according to an analysis from KFF.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named the best-rated Medicare Advantage plans of 2024 based on nearly 50 factors that include patient experience and clinical quality.

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The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named the best-rated managed Medicaid plans of 2024 based on nearly 50 factors that include patient experience and clinical quality.

Four insurers or their subsidiaries are among the top 100 companies in the U.S. for jobs  that consist of some remote work and some in-office work, according to FlexJobs.

Medicare Advantage continues to grow fast, diversifying its membership of 33.8 million people, or about 55% of the total Medicare population, according to the Better Medicare Alliance's 2024 "State of Medicare Advantage Report."

The Cigna Group's pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, is suing the Federal Trade Commission and Chair Lina Khan over what it describes as an "unfair, biased, erroneous, and defamatory" report on pharmacy benefit managers released by the agency earlier this…

Point32Health president and CEO Cain Hayes is leaving the company after three years in his role.

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