Erlanger Health System is suing the state's Medicaid program, TennCare, over claims that the program is choosing to give profits to insurers over health systems.
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Independence Blue Cross has both extended its contract with Penn Medicine and broadened it to develop new value-based programs.
The jury ruling on a Nevada lawsuit between TeamHealth and UnitedHealthcare sided against the payer in a Nov. 29 decision.
UnitedHealth Group shared its updated 2021 outlook and its anticipated 2022 outlook ahead of the payer's annual Investor Conference on Nov. 30.
Continuing to use fee-for-service care for Medicaid and dual-eligible recipients could cost the federal government upwards of $4.4 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a UnitedHealth Group report.
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Florida lawmakers are stirring up bipartisan support to expand KidCare, the state's subsidized child healthcare program, for the first time since 2012.
Despite the country's decades-high 6.2 percent inflation rate in October, a Nov. 24 report from PolitiFact and Kaiser Health News found it did not influence Medicare's 2022 premium hikes.
UnitedHealth Group appointed Margaret-Mary Wilson, MD, as executive vice president and CMO, a company spokesperson told Becker's.
A proposal from the IRS seeks to revise and loosen requirements for reporting minimum essential coverage under the ACA, while simultaneously becoming more strict on faulty reports.
Parties are expecting a jury's decision to be made in a lawsuit between UnitedHealthcare and TeamHealth in Nevada after lawyers made their closing statements Nov. 23.