Aetna and Optum have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the companies of improperly charging administrative fees as medical expenses.
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The country's largest payers reported year-over-year increases in medical cost ratios.
Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners has reached an agreement on a multi-year contract with UnitedHealthcare.
The nation's largest payers have filed their third-quarter earnings reports, revealing which recorded the largest profits.
Donald Trump's second term as president likely will have significant implications for healthcare, including the Medicare Advantage program, which provides health coverage to more than half of the nation's older adults.
CVS Health's new CEO is prepared to make "hard choices" to turn around Aetna's performance.
South Dakota voters have approved a ballot measure that allows state officials to consider work requirements for Medicaid expansion recipients, South Dakota Spotlight reported Nov. 6.
CVS Health named Steve Nelson as president of Aetna, effective Nov. 6.
Medicare Advantage insurers' stocks rallied upon news of Donald Trump's impending return to the White House, Bloomberg reported Nov. 6.
Illinois voters have passed an advisory referendum aimed at requiring all health plans that cover pregnancy to also cover in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and other assisted reproductive treatments on an unlimited basis.