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Kelly Gooch

Access to providers and accuracy of information about provider networks is lacking for some health plans sold through Covered California and in the private market, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

New York City-based health insurance startup Oscar Health was once lauded as a disrupter among its more traditional contemporaries. With its quirky branding and emphasis on simplicity, it was coined the "hipster" health insurance company poised to "make health insurance…

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Interest in provider-sponsored health plans continues to increase among health systems and physician groups with 270 in operation today, up from 107 in 2014, according to a new report from PwC's Health Research Institute.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth has released its 2016 PayerView report, a ranking of private and government payers garnered from the company's cloud-based databank of national network providers.

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