Payer

Payers spent $80.6 million on lobbying in 2020, a study published in JAMA Health Forum found. 

The nation's 10th annual open enrollment period to sign up for Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage is open from Nov. 1 through Jan. 15, and this year it includes several changes around access and affordability.

From BrightHealthcare and Friday Health Plans leaving major ACA markets to more than a dozen Medicare Advantage expansions, these are 26 recent payer moves to exit or enter markets:

A majority of Medicare beneficiaries have had the same plan for at least three years and 36 percent don't know the annual enrollment period is currently underway, according to a new survey from online insurance marketplace eHealth.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were among those who recently paid tribute to Michael Neidorff, the late CEO of Centene, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Oct. 30. 

WPS Health will end its Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Oct. 29. 

From its third-quarter earnings, to announcing it is awarding Express Scripts its pharmacy benefit management contract, here are eight stories about Centene that Becker's has covered since Oct. 11.     

Two days after denying it had reached a settlement with Ohio over alleged overcharging claims, UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx arm said the deal has been finalized, the Ohio Capital Journal reported Oct. 31.  

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.