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From a partnership with Walmart to defeating lawsuits, here are seven headlines about UnitedHealth Group that Becker's has covered since Sept. 6: 

In the wake of severe flooding and tornadoes that damaged communities in rural Kentucky in July, Humana Foundation CEO Tiffany Benjamin says future investments in rural areas can help bolster health equity before natural disasters strike again. 

Employers expect the costs of providing health insurance to their employees to rise, a survey from Willis Towers Watson found.

Cigna has joined other payers in covering a noninvasive neurostimulation device from BrainsWay that treats obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Here are what leaders of five organizations said following the House of Representatives' unanimous passage Sept. 14 of a bill to reform the Medicare Advantage prior authorization process. 

It’s a familiar pattern with payers, the provider wins a front-line appeal, then a myriad of payer reviews occur and result in more denials.

Capping cost-sharing each month, rather than on an annual basis, could result in savings for consumers, a new research brief published in JAMA Network Open found. 

Medicare Advantage plan star ratings hit their highest-ever levels in 2022 — but plans shouldn't expect these increases to continue, McKinsey analysts warn. 

From Medicare Advantage providers denying access to care unnecessarily to the nation's organ transplant network being vulnerable to a cyberattack, these are 10 recent findings from HHS' Office of the Inspector General:

Humana executives told investors Sept. 15 it's looking to match or exceed other payers that have outpaced it in Medicare Advantage growth over the last year, WDRB reported.