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Alignment Health Plan is offering a co-branded Medicare Advantage plan alongside Rite Aid, the companies announced Aug. 16. 

Cigna will continue to grow its partnership with Waltham, Mass.-based Fresenius Medical Care North America as it pens an agreement to extend its collaborative effort to support kidney failure patients. 

Centene appointed Rich Fisher as senior vice president and Medicare CEO.

A Columbia, Miss., woman pleaded guilty to siphoning money from Medicare over two years by fraudulently billing for medical equipment.

As cost and complexity grow to be "fundamental" challenges to employers looking at health insurance amid the pandemic, businesses are looking for holistic ways to manage coverage, said Tara Krauss, head of accident and health for QBE North America.

A federal appeals court ruled against UnitedHealthcare Aug. 13 in a case involving Medicare Advantage overpayments. 

The over two-thirds of workers under employer-funded healthcare plans are being swept into a dangerously growing trend, said Alain Enthoven, PhD, a Stanford emeritus professor of public and private management.

More than half of medical practices are seeing insurance fees they didn't agree to when receiving electronic payments, according to an Aug. 10 poll from the Medical Group Management Association.

Fewer payment models and a closer link between outcomes and health equity will guide CMS' strategy during the next decade, leaders wrote in an Aug. 12 blog post published in Health Affairs.

Miami-based CareMax, a senior healthcare provider with an emphasis on value-based care, penned a partnership with Anthem that will lead to the duo opening 50 medical centers around the country.