From Optum launching a pair of prior authorization tools to UnitedHealthcare projecting it will lose up to 2.8 million members in 2026, here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since Jan. 14: 1.…
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CVS Health’s approximately 9,000 community pharmacies began accepting TrumpRx discount cards Feb. 6. The cards offer savings on certain medications for eligible patients, as determined by drugmakers, according to a Feb. 6 CVS news release. Patients can present printed discount…
UnitedHealth’s Optum identified $1.7 billion in potential savings if Minnesota would remedy ambiguity in its Medicaid policies, according to a Jan. 31 from the company. As of October, the Minnesota Department of Human Services had contracted with Optum to analyze claims…
This February, BCBS Michigan shared how it will cut reimbursement by 50% for nonpreventive evaluation/management services with modifier 25 that were billed on the same day as procedure codes with global periods of zero, 10 or 90 days. Modifier 25…
Elevance Health bid on 11 national accounts in competing Blue Cross Blue Shield markets last year and won nine of them, the company said on its 2025 earnings call with investors, offering the first look at how a landmark antitrust…
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About 4,000 Maryland Health Benefit Exchange customers “were mistakenly notified” of 2026 auto-renewal for CareFirst BCBS coverage, the insurer told Becker’s Feb. 5. CareFirst attributed the error to a “data synchronization issue” with the marketplace and said these individuals did…
Molina Healthcare will exit the Medicare Advantage Part D business in 2027, the company announced alongside its fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings report published Feb. 5. The MAPD product represents approximately $1 billion in annual premiums. Molina said…
The Cigna Group’s board of directors on Feb. 5 declared a per-share cash dividend of $1.56 to be paid on March 19. The dividend will be paid to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 5.…
Indiana Medicaid will seek proposals from insurers for $68 billion in contracts for Medicaid managed care services, according to a Jan. 30 presentation by the state’s Family and Social Services Administration. The state plans to issue the request for proposals…
Twenty-two groups — most healthcare related — signed a letter advocating for a bill that aims for fairer comparison between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service, according to a Feb. 4 news release from AHIP. Reps. Aaron Bean, R-Fl., and Kevin Hern,…