Payer

At a House committee hearing June 28, oversight officials from across the federal government called on Congress to take action against Medicare Advantage plans found to be denying care to patients while overcharging the government by billions of dollars every…

Alignment Healthcare is expanding into Florida and Texas to reach an additional 1.1 million Medicare-eligible seniors.

Anthem officially became Elevance Health on June 28. Here are the executives leading the newly rebranded payer, according to its website:

The California Department of Managed Health Care fined Molina Healthcare of California $1 million for failure to quickly pay $80.3 million to providers.

The American Hospital Association has offered its support of a proposed CMS rule change that reduces Medicare coverage delays. 

For the first time, Delaware will allow three payers to offer plans on the state's ACA marketplace in 2023: AmeriHealth Caritas, Aetna and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware.

On June 1, the National Committee for Quality Assurance launched its digital quality solutions pilot with six health plans, delivery systems and health information technology firms to provide feedback on the new software product aimed at improving the nation's care…

The California Medical Association wants Cigna to rescind a recently announced policy the group said "effectively penalizes physicians for providing efficient, unscheduled care to Cigna enrollees."

The company formerly known as Anthem commemorated its official rebranding to Elevance Health on June 28 by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and beginning to trade under the new ticker symbol "ELV."

Following the Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, payers across the nation issued responses that ranged from total denouncement of the decision to commitments to support employee access to abortion services.