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While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didn't outright dismiss the possibility of a single-payer health plan in an interview with Rolling Stone, she questioned how the proposal would be paid for, according to The Hill.

An additional 4.2 million Americans would be able to obtain individual health plans, and their premiums would be about 33 percent lower on average, under a new Blue Cross Blue Shield Association proposal.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC said its health plan now has more Medicare Advantage members than Pittsburgh-based rival Highmark, according to Trib Live.

Here are six articles recently published by Becker's Hospital Review on national and state news concerning Medicaid.

Health insurers selling plans on HealthCare.gov denied 17 percent of in-network claims on average during the 2016 plan year, according a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

Humana President and CEO Bruce Broussard recently moved to sell $7.5 million worth of stock, according to a Feb. 22 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Healthcare stock declines are being led by losses in the health insurance sector after Democrats introduced a new "Medicare for All" bill that would replace private health plans with a government option, according to Bloomberg.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., is the latest Democrat to unveil a bill aimed at instating a "Medicare for All" health insurance system, according to NBC News.

Mark Bertolini, former CEO of Aetna — now owned by CVS Health — compared the U.S. healthcare system to the auto industry in an interview at the Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose's annual "Board of Boards" event, according to Chief…

Limited trust has existed between payers and providers thanks to disagreements over networks, prior authorization and price variation; however, now is the time to change this dynamic, executives from UnitedHealth Group, Anthem and Permanente Medical Group wrote in a JAMA…