Republican lawmakers are reviving proposals that failed to make it into the sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act, turning their focus to a trio of measures that could reshape how employers offer health benefits through Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements,…
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Optum’s Massachusetts-based subsidiary Atrius Health plans to acquire Acton Medical Associates, a 45-provider primary care group serving nearly 37,000 patients in the Boston area, according to a Sept. 25 filing from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. Atrius, a Newton-based physician…
Premiums for employer-provided coverage could increase by about 5% to 14% for employers that cover GLP-1s, according to an Oct. 9 analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. With 55% of employers covering GLP-1s for diabetes and 36% for both…
Health information management and revenue cycle teams are overwhelmed by document-heavy workflows — from intake packets and physician orders to clinical notes and appeal evidence. Manual separation, classification, and data entry slow cycle time, increase administrative burden, and limit scalability.…
Nov 18, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Jay Harmon
Senior Applications Analyst, Nebraska Medicine
Angela Colbert
Revenue Cycle Manager of Payment Posting, Payment Processing and Imaging Teams, Patient Financial Services, Iowa Health Care
Ellen Wandro
Revenue Cycle Representative Imaging Team Specialist, Patient Financial Services, Iowa Health Care
Sarah Armenio
Senior Manager, Product Management, Hyland
Building an effective care management program starts with targeting the right people. Too often, outreach is broad, generic and resource-intensive — leading to minimal engagement. In this webinar, UMass Memorial Health’s Chief Medical Officer of population health will explore proven…
Nov 6, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago
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Dr. Tom Scornavacca
Chief Medical Officer of Population Health, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Justin Berry
Vice President, Population Health Conifer Health
West Virginia may have paid managed care organizations up to $32.4 million for ineligible Medicaid participants, according to an October audit report. The audit examined payments from 2019 to 2020 and was inspired by Louisiana audits involving Aetna. MCOs get…
Many Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans lack robust behavioral health networks, according to an October brief from the HHS Office of the Inspector General. The OIG analyzed four MA plans and two Medicaid managed care plans across 10…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is offering a voluntary separation program to about 18% of its employees — totaling nearly 800 people — a company spokesperson told Becker’s. Employees who are at least 55 years old and have worked…
Pennsylvania lawmakers introduced a bill in October to regulate AI use in health insurance, joining a wave of states attempting to add guardrails in the payer space, especially after an early draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act included…
A federal judge in Indiana has thrown out most claims in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing four insurers and six health systems of improperly billing the state’s Medicaid program, but left the door open for the case to continue. The lawsuit,…