1. Current and former Centene board members, along with former senior executives, beat a pension fund derivative lawsuit alleging the company overbilled state Medicaid programs for pharmacy services.
2. UnitedHealth Group and several of the company’s leaders are facing a shareholder derivative lawsuit alleging they failed to disclose that the Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into the company.
3. A North Carolina state court sided with the state in its decision to award Aetna its health plan contract for public employees over Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.
4. A federal jury awarded a former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee employee nearly $700,000 after she was terminated for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2021.
5. Cook Children’s Health Plan is challenging Texas’s Medicaid contract awards in court. The plan, owned by Fort Worth-based Cook Children’s Health Care System, was not awarded a contract to manage Texas’s STAR and CHIP programs. Cook Children’s executives have previously said the plan will likely shut down if it is denied a Medicaid contract from the state.
6. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Home Depot’s challenge to a $2.67 billion settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield companies, ending a legal saga over alleged anticompetitive behavior that dates back to 2012.
7. A federal lawsuit from UnitedHealth Group was dismissed against two former executives, which alleged they stole and used confidential company information to create their own competing product for diabetes management.
8. CMS recalculated Medicare Advantage plans’ star ratings after insurers challenging the agency’s methodology were handed court victories.
