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Kaiser Permanente reported a decline in health plan membership, driven by slowed job growth. 

Challenges in the Medicare Advantage market may force insurers to cut back on extra benefits like vision and dental in 2025, The Wall Street Journal columnist David Wainer wrote Feb. 11. 

Elevance Health had the largest profit margin in the third quarter of 2023 among the leading Blue Cross Blue Shield companies, according to a February analysis by Mark Farrah Associates.

Every major insurer has reported that Medicare Advantage costs are going up. 

New guardrails for Medicare Advantage plans' use of AI may not be clear enough, experts told members of the Senate Finance Committee. 

UnitedHealthcare ended 2023 with the largest total membership of large payers across Medicare, Medicaid, military, commercial and individual business. 

UnitedHealthcare is still the largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the U.S. 

Asking Medicare Advantage members a single question over the phone can help determine their health literacy status, a study from Humana published in the American Journal of Managed Care Feb. 7 found. 

The nation's largest payers have filed their fourth-quarter earnings reports, revealing how medical loss ratios changed year over year.

Georgia is suing the Biden administration to keep the state's partially expanded Medicaid expansion program running until Sept. 30, 2028, the Georgia Recorder reported Feb. 2.