San Francisco-based Dignity Health, part of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, reached an agreement to transfer its share of co-owned Arizona managed care health plan, Mercy Care, to CVS Health subsidiary Aetna. CommonSpirit had a 49.75% ownership interest in Mercy Care as of…
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The Trump administration has begun sending $500 checks to more than 950,000 people in 30 states it says were overcharged through the ACA’s federal exchange, according to information an administration official shared with Becker’s. Five things to know: 1. The…
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health reported operating income of $1.5 billion (8.3% margin) during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, down from a $1.7 billion operating gain (10% margin) in the previous fiscal year, according to financial statements…
Growth in healthcare spending, not insurer profit margins, drove the vast majority of commercial premium increases over more than a decade, according to a study published Sept. 4 in JAMA Health Forum. Researchers at Yale University and the University of…
Hospitals are seeing more self-pay patients as coverage losses mount across both the ACA and Medicaid markets. In a study published Aug. 31, Epic Research found self-pay visits are increasing across hospital settings as Medicaid enrollment has fallen across the…
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Mark Cuban argues the fundamental problem in U.S. healthcare is not whether the system is run by the public sector or the private sector. It is that hospitals do not know what their own services cost. During an Aug. 18…
UPMC Health Plan posted an operating income of $447 million (4.7% operating margin) in the first half of 2026, up from $106 million (1.1% margin) during the same period last year, according to the system’s Aug. 27 financial report. The…
Health insurers collectively lost $10.4 billion on underwriting in 2025, a dramatic deterioration from $1.7 billion the year before, according to a Mark Farrah Associates analysis. The Aug. 25 analysis compared 2024 and 2025 profitability across four segments: individual, employer-group,…
Most large health insurers posted stronger-than-expected earnings in the second quarter, but much of the improvement might not be durable, according to a Moody’s Ratings analysis published Aug. 24. Average EBITDA margins across the seven largest publicly traded insurers rose…
Some of the country’s most recognizable employers are reshaping their health insurance benefits heading into 2027. In the span of a few weeks, Walt Disney, Bloomberg, Starbucks, and the City of Dallas have all taken actions to rein in healthcare…