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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.

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.