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Kentucky will expand Medicaid coverage to include dental, vision and hearing coverage, The Louisville Courier-Journal reported Oct. 20. 

In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Management and Budget Office Director Shalanda Young, AHIP explained its vision for how demographic data can be improved and standardized across the healthcare system. 

Here are five payers adding additional areas to their ACA marketplace plan offerings for 2023. The ACA enrollment period begins Nov. 1. 

Banner|Aetna, a joint venture between Phoenix-based Banner Health and Aetna, is introducing a "frictionless" billing process designed to reduce confusion for patients.

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: