Payer

Overall satisfaction with pharmacy benefit managers is down among plan sponsors, a survey from the Pharmaceutical Strategies Report found. 

A judge in Delaware temporarily blocked the state from moving its public retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan, the Delaware News Journal reported Oct. 19. 

Florida Blue will invest $3.73 million in combating food insecurity through grants to 10 community organizations, the payer said Oct. 19. 

The National Community Pharmacists Association is urging the Department of Defense to take action to reinstate the nearly 15,000 community pharmacies dropped from Tricare's network, the group said in an Oct. 19 news release. 

As the midterm elections loom, Centene has been caught in the middle of the Georgia campaigns for governor and attorney general because of the company's political donations and its legal settlements with states for allegedly overbilling Medicaid programs.

From its completed acquisition of Change Healthcare to unveiling its third quarter earnings, here are six headlines about UnitedHealth that Becker's has covered since Oct. 3: 

Nearly a third of beneficiaries said they chose traditional Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan with the help of an insurance broker, according to the Commonwealth Fund's "2022 Biennial Health Insurance" survey released  Oct. 17.  

Cigna will offer plans on the ACA marketplace in four South Carolina counties for 2023, the payer said Oct. 19. 

The council of the District of Columbia voted to approve awarding Medicaid contracts to Amerigroup, MedStar Family Choice and AmeriHealth Caritas D.C., despite protests from CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Washington Post reported Oct. 18. 

Payer-negotiated prices for radiology services can vary widely, even within the same hospital, a study published Oct. 18 in Radiology found.