Tens of millions of Americans are at risk of losing access to mental healthcare services if Republican lawmakers follow through on their vow to repeal the ACA, according to Politico.
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Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare hopes to increase health plan rates up to 11 percent for some small group policyholders next year, Phoenix Business Journal reports.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana and Centennial, Colo.-based FullWell — an organization offering population health management resources — inked a value-based agreement financially rewarding physicians for quality care.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson could decide the fate of Anthem's proposed $54 billion acquisition of Cigna next week, as the first phase of the government's challenge to the deal ended Dec. 2, reports WBAA.
Columbus-based The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will provide in-network care to all Indianapolis-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage members in Ohio.
Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will get an additional $40 million from competing insurers under the ACA's risk adjustment program for 2015, reports Boston Business Journal.
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller, in partnership with Consumers' Checkbook, unveiled a website to help consumers chose health plans on and off the federal marketplace.
New York's Medicaid program will begin covering gender-transition care for people under 18 under a court-ordered expansion of coverage, effective Dec. 7, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A federal judge ruled Dec. 2 nonprofit health plan Community Health Options can proceed with its lawsuit against the federal government over payments it claims it is owed under the ACA's risk corridors program, reports Maine Public.
America's Health Insurance Plans, one of the nation's two leading industry trade groups, publicly outlined what insurers need from the government if the GOP repeals and replaces the ACA, reports The New York Times.