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Noncitizens who use Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program benefits will not face immigration consequences, the Department of Homeland Security said Sept. 8. 

The American Medical Association says eliminating no-cost preventive care is "unwise and unthinkable." 

A federal judge questioned the arguments made by the Justice Department in its challenge of the proposed merger of UnitedHealth Group's Optum and Change Healthcare, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Several Senate Democrats are urging AHIP to ensure pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs (PrEP), which prevent HIV, are fully covered by payers. 

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Des Moines-based UnityPoint Health are partnering to offer health plans on the individual ACA market in Iowa for 2023.

Aetna is expanding its co-branded CVS Health insurance plans on the individual ACA marketplaces to a total of 12 states for 2023: Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, Texas and Virginia.

The cost of care has topped the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest healthcare concern facing Massachusetts residents, according to a Sept. 8 survey commissioned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. 

Medicare beneficiaries in urban and more densely populated states were more likely to use telehealth services during the first year of the pandemic compared to beneficiaries in more rural states, according to a new report from the HHS Office of…

Medicare beneficiaries who live in urban areas, Hispanic people and women are some of the groups that used telehealth the most in the first year of the pandemic, according to a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.

From canceling plans to build an East Coast campus in North Carolina to settling allegations it overcharged Washington's Medicaid program, here are eight stories about Centene that Becker's has covered since Aug. 18.