UnitedHealth Group’s board of directors approved a per-share cash dividend of $2.32 to be paid Sept. 22. The dividend will be paid to all shareholders of the company’s common stock as of business close on Sept. 14. The company released…
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Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance has partnered with Millennium Physician Group to expand value-based care and primary care access across Indiana. Fort Myers, Fla.-based Millennium is part of a national value-based care platform partially owned by Elevance Health. The partnership will…
A framework for calculating the full cost of provider credentialing — including the dimensions most health plans have never measured. Most health plan finance leaders can pull their CVO contract spend in minutes. What’s harder to answer, and what almost…
A new CMS final rule will prevent federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding from going toward gender-affirming care for youths. The rule, which Becker’s reviewed Aug. 11, will go into effect Oct. 13. It blocks states from using Medicaid federal matching funds for…
A federal judge has thrown out a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing Sentara Health Plans of fraudulently inflating ACA marketplace premiums in Virginia after multiple large insurer competitors left the market in 2017. Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon found…
A federal judge dismissed most of a class-action lawsuit alleging the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association shared federal employees’ health-related website data with TikTok, Meta, Google and LinkedIn without consent. The lawsuit dates back to 2023. A January 2024 amended…
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Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Health is expecting to grow into new markets and carry out acquisitions — and now has the financial backing to do so. The insurer laid out its plan in a July 30 Securities and Exchange Commission…
Not all CMS data is telling the same story when it comes to ACA enrollment in Texas. As of January, nearly 4.2 million Texans had selected ACA plans for 2026, up from nearly 4 million in 2025. That marked the…
UnitedHealth Group paid $3 billion for benefits administration platform Alegeus, according to an Aug. 10 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company had not previously disclosed a price for the deal. In the filing, which does not directly…