Author: Rylee Wilson

Government officials want to turn an 11-acre BlueCross BlueShield site for sale in Chattanooga, Tenn., into a public school campus. 

Arkansas terminated Medicaid coverage for almost 73,000 people in April, including 44,667 people who had their eligibility extended during the COVID-19 public health emergency. 

Bright Health Group improved on its losses year over year and upped revenue in the first quarter of 2023. 

New GLP-1 drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity can be expensive, but payer leaders said the costs aren't breaking the bank yet. 

More data is necessary to evaluate the quality of care Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with serious illnesses receive, a group of researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Payers are putting artificial intelligence to work. 

Cigna posted the largest membership growth of prominent payer companies in the first quarter of 2023. 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health will end joint ownership of 25 primary, specialty and hospice care clinics. 

Employers are hesitant to cover the cost of GLP-1 drugs for their employees, the Cigna Group CEO David Cordani said. 

Federal Medicaid work requirements could cost states up to $10.3 billion each year if they chose to maintain coverage for people no longer federally eligible for the program, according to an analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation.