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Mental and behavioral health along with spending on specialty drugs represent two accelerating trends in terms of their relevance to employee benefits packages and to employers' total spend.

From parent company CVS Health's $8 billion purchase of Signify Health to an expired contract with Covenant Health, here are seven stories about Aetna that Becker's has covered since July 26. 

Oregon is adding mobile crisis intervention services, which connect people experiencing mental health or substance use crises with a behavioral health specialist, to its Medicaid services. 

The American Medical Association, the Medical Society of New Jersey and the Washington State Medical Association joined a class-action lawsuit against Cigna Sept. 12 for allegedly failing to pay medical claims in full after members submitted them through MultiPlan, the…

The nation's uninsured rate hit a record low of 8 percent in the first quarter of this year, and it's likely to decrease further following major ACA investments at the federal level and significant expansions into the individual market from…

Total Medicaid enrollment increased by 17.7 million, up nearly 25 percent from February 2020 — when the COVID-19 pandemic began — to May 2022, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows. 

Price-capping insulin could have unintended consequences, as lower costs could lead to the drug being prioritized over newer, more effective treatments for diabetes, Michael Rose, MD, writes in The Atlantic. 

Mass General Brigham Health Plan will begin offering new Medicare Advantage plans in 2023.

A Texas federal judge's ruling that requiring employers to cover HIV prevention drugs, or PrEP, violates religious freedom is against common sense, a Texas physician writes. 

More than half of American adults believe commercial payers, Medicare and Medicaid should be more involved in paying for long-term senior care, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in Chicago.