Author: Rylee Wilson

The Cigna Group is expecting a program that offers employers ways to manage the high cost of new weight loss drugs to grow. 

Medicare Advantage enrollees have 70% lower hospital readmission rates than their counterparts in fee-for-service Medicare, a white paper from researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School and software firm Inovalon found. 

Optum will move out of an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based campus with 473,000 square feet of office space by the end of 2023, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported Nov. 2. 

More than 10 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid since continuous coverage requirements ended in April, according to KFF. 

Medica has named Lisa Erickson as its next president and CEO. 

An increase in COVID-19 inpatient admissions is one factor driving higher utilization rates in Medicare Advantage, Humana executives said. 

Humana reported a 30% decline in net income year over year in the third quarter of 2023. 

CVS Health is planning to lay off more employees at insurance subsidiary Aetna, and the company improved its Medicare Advantage ratings for 2024. 

Value-based care models did not grow from 2021 to 2022, though more dollars moved to two-sided risk-based models, according to the Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network's annual report published Oct. 30. 

Open enrollment for individual plans on the ACA exchange runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15.