A proposal from California Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to make the state the first to expand Medicaid eligibility to include anyone regardless of their immigration status, according to a Jan. 11 report from The Sacramento Bee.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration is expanding ACA preventive care and screening coverage for women and children, HHS announced Jan. 11.
North Carolina awarded CVS Caremark, CVS Health's pharmacy benefit manager, a $3.4 billion contract to serve the state's 727,000 public employees.
Private insurers must cover the cost of up to eight at-home COVID-19 tests per month effective Jan. 15, according to an HHS news release.
HHS announced 13.8 million people are enrolled in an ACA plan, expanding on an enrollment record set in December, according to a Jan. 10 news release.
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Bright Health Group is positioned to surpass the 1 million member mark in 2022 between its commercial and Medicare lines, the company announced Jan. 10.
Clover Health saw 25 percent growth in its Medicare Advantage membership over the last year, trumping the industry annual average of 10 percent growth, according to a Jan. 10 news release.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra is ordering CMS to review its 2022 Medicare Part B premiums following the announcement that Biogen would be slashing the price of its Alzheimer's disease drug in half, according to a Jan. 10 news release.
Payers maintain one of the few remaining ways of holding accountable the 15 percent of U.S. adults unvaccinated against COVID-19: leveraging insurance surcharges and discounts, columnist Glenn Altschuler wrote in a Jan. 10 column for The Hill.
New Hampshire's Justice Department announced a $21 million settlement with Centene and two of its subsidiaries — Granite State Health Plan and NH Healthy Families — over the payer's pharmacy benefit services.