Author: Rylee Wilson

UnitedHealth Group's Board of Directors is made of a wide range of former business executives, top medical leaders, and voices from tech and other industries. 

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are less likely to be hospitalized for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions than their counterparts in traditional Medicare, but this care is shifted to other settings, a study published Feb. 24 in JAMA Health Forum found. 

The American Dental Association says there needs to be more data about Medicare Advantage dental benefits. 

Special needs plans, Medicare Advantage plans for individuals with chronic or disabling conditions, are growing faster than the general MA program. 

California lawmakers are mulling legislation to allow immigrants without legal status to purchase health insurance on Covered California, the state's ACA Exchange, the Sacramento Bee reported Feb. 24. 

Humana is projecting to add at least 775,000 new Medicare Advantage members in 2023. 

Medicare can financially survive using strategies that cut costs in 1997, two prominent Republicans wrote in an op-ed published Feb. 23 in the Wall Street Journal. 

Aetna is bolstering its network in North Carolina ahead of its takeover of the state's health plan for public employees. 

Humana said Feb. 23 it plans to exit the commercial group market to focus on its government-sponsored business. 

Of the 1,100-plus health plans accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, 176 have received the health equity accreditation granted by the association.