Author: Rylee Wilson

The Better Medicare Alliance is recommending a set of policies to Congress and CMS to improve prior authorization, behavioral health access, equity and more in the program. 

Humana's ACO saved over $25 million for the Medicare program in 2022. 

Centene CEO Sarah London is expecting more states to expand Medicaid. 

Centene's individual marketplace business has grown 75% year over year, adding 1.6 million members since the third quarter of 2022, according to the company's third quarter earnings report published Oct. 24. 

The Medicare Global and Professional Direct Contracting model saved the program more than $300 million in net savings in 2022, according to CMS data published Oct. 24. 

Centene has named Wade Rakes as chief growth officer. 

Participants in the Medicare Global and Professional Direct Contracting model saved the program more than $300 million in net savings in 2022. 

Around 2.3 million people would gain insurance coverage if 10 states expanded Medicaid in 2024, according to an Oct. 23 report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

Here are eight providers that payers have acquired or announced plans to acquire in 2023: 

Michigan has codified several provisions of the Affordable Care Act into state law, ahead of a Supreme Court case that could strike down the law's preventive care coverage requirements.