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HHS is urging states to do more to improve Medicaid call center wait times, rates of procedural terminations and application processing times. 

Officials in three states are pushing back on payers looking to raise members' premiums in 2024.

UnitedHealth Group has the potential to reach a market value of $1 trillion by 2030, according to an Aug. 10 financial report from the Motley Fool.

Elevance Health named a new CFO and published new research in the first weeks of August. 

Medical cost ratios across six major payers rose an average of just under 1 percent year over year, according to companies' second-quarter earnings reports. 

Half of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries say they don't fully understand their plan, a survey from Retirement Living published Aug. 9 found. 

From a leadership reshuffle to the launch of a nurse practitioner degree program, here are nine updates from Optum that Becker's reported since July 11:  

The end of a reinsurance program that covered some of the costliest claims for payers is coming to an end, driving up premiums in the state, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Aug. 9. 

UnitedHealthcare had the highest percentage of Medicare Advantage enrollees in 2013 and 2023, but its market share grew by 7 percentage points over that span, according to an Aug. 9 report from KFF. 

Alabama, Hawaii and Michigan have the highest share of Medicare-eligible residents enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans in 2023, while Alaska has the least, according to an Aug. 9 report from KFF.