September 17, 2025

1. ACA subsidy extension left out of 7-week stopgap funding bill Full story

2. Judge tosses terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione Full story

3. Medicare Advantage growth strategies: Find out what's working in markets across the nation at Becker's Payer Issues Roundtable. Get access to 120+ elite speakers — request a complimentary badge as a participating executive here.

4. Amazon invests $1B to cut employee health plan costs Full story

5. The lowest-rated health plans of 2025: NCQA Full story

 

6. JAMA study reignites RTPB debate: MultiCare, Optum + Oracle weigh in here.

7. UnitedHealthcare's Texas CEO to depart Full story

8. Wisconsin payer scaling back ACA offerings in 2026 Full story

9. How AI could advance personalized drug coverage Full story

10. Reliance on Big 3 PBMs is shrinking: Survey Full story

11. Optum Rx raises brand drug reimbursements for independent pharmacies Full story

 

12. Is your post-acute strategy hurting reimbursement? Payer + provider leaders share fixes here.

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13. Reduce stigma and clinician burden with onsite behavioral health. Banner leaders explain here.

14. This California health plan cut NEMT fraud + delays with 1 switch. Details here.

15. CMS-0057 deadlines coming. How HCSC, Florida Blue + others are preparing: here.

16. Interested in more? See Becker’s full lineup of webinars and whitepapers.

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