Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is proposing a new health insurance option for employers that aims to lower premiums by removing certain state-mandated benefits while maintaining federal coverage requirements. The proposal, called the Essential Benefits Health Insurance Plan, would allow insurers…
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Health systems spent years expanding ambulatory access through clinics, outpatient centers and multispecialty networks. Now many organizations are confronting a different challenge: managing increasingly distributed ambulatory portfolios that were not originally designed to operate at scale. This whitepaper explores how…
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Open enrollment magnifies workforce decisions. Every delayed hire, every vacant seat, and every compressed onboarding timeline becomes more visible as call volumes increase and members need timely, accurate support. By the time open enrollment arrives, workforce planning has either become…
Health plans and providers have long operated in tension, but a growing chorus of payer and health system leaders believe the adversarial model is no longer sustainable — financially, clinically, or for the patients caught in the middle. Becker’s asked…
Payer policy changes that are not reflected in contracts are the leading source of revenue leakage for providers, according to a July 29 report from Trek Health in partnership with the Healthcare Financial Management Association. The report is based on…
Alignment Healthcare grew its membership 31.5% year over year to just over 294,000, the Medicare Advantage insurer said in its second quarter earnings posted July 30. Total revenue was $1.3 billion, a 31.6% increase year over year. Net income was…
Total medical costs for fully insured individuals rose 9% per person in 2025, an average increase of $722, according to a July analysis from UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Health Care Research. The estimates are based on 2024 and 2025 UnitedHealthcare…
Senate Democrats want more information on how to enact private health insurance reforms, including feedback on establishing a federal public option. The 86-page RFI, published July 30, asks stakeholders and policy experts for their input on dozens of potential policy…
Cigna pulled back GLP-1 weight-loss coverage for its own employees July 1. Now it says its clients have been doing the same. On a July 30 earnings call, Cigna President and CEO Brian Evanko said Evernorth Health Services has seen…
UnitedHealth Group is now the fourth-largest company in the world by revenue, according to the 2026 Fortune Global 500. The list ranks the world’s largest public and private companies by revenue for the 2025 fiscal year. UnitedHealth posted more than…