Payer

The Association for Community Affiliated Plans has launched a new center aimed at offering resources to payers and policymakers that will support initiatives around social determinants of health and reductions in health disparities.

It may feel like the walls are closing in around the pharmacy benefit manager industry. In less than a month's time, bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress to create more regulations around the drug middlemen, and the Federal Trade Commission…

WEA Trust and Health Tradition Health Plan will exit the Wisconsin health insurance market by the end of 2022, citing financial challenges with maintaining the business.  

Letters are being sent to 1,430 Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Health Advantage members who may be affected by a cyberattack on one of its vendors, NBC affiliate KARK reported June 28. 

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.