Payer

Payers have been required to publish the cost of nearly every service negotiated with providers since July 1. Here's what we know so far about this data and the insights researchers have gleaned from payers' negotiated prices. 

Cigna said Oct. 28 it will offer individual ACA plans on the Indiana healthcare exchange for the first time in 2023.

Rates of ACA marketplace enrollment jumped among people of color from 2020 to 2022, due in large part to increased subsidies and outreach efforts, according to an HHS report. 

Kim Keck, CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, described how advancing health equity and improving affordability are guiding the 34 independent BCBS companies in an interview with CEO Magazine. 

AmeriHealth Caritas' ACA marketplace business is expanding into three new states in 2023. 

More than half of states have expanded postpartum Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program coverage to 12 months, with Georgia and Pennsylvania becoming the 25th and 26th states, respectively, to do so. 

Molina Healthcare acquired several Medicaid contracts during the third quarter of 2022, which will have a "profound impact" on the company over the next few years, Molina President and CEO Joseph Zubretsky said during the company's Oct. 27 earnings call.  

UnitedHealthcare is expanding its individual and family plans on the ACA marketplaces to a total of 22 states for 2023.

More payers are adding value-based kidney care partnerships and initiatives to address the needs of the nearly 40 million people in the U.S living with kidney disease. 

Forty-one percent of small business owners said the rising cost of health insurance has caused them to increase prices of goods and services, according to a survey from Small Business for America's Future.