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WellCare is incentivizing Kentucky Medicaid recipients to get their COVID-19 vaccine with $100 gift cards. 

Florida Blue is hiring 1,200 health insurance agents as it prepares for enrollment this fall.

Analysts expect a year-over-year decline in Centene's second-quarter earnings, which will be reported July 27, according to Yahoo. 

Eight updates on Aetna to know in July:

Reps. Steven Horsford, D-Nev. and Robin Kelly, D-Ill., co-authored a bill that would allow Medicare Part B to cover most dental services.

Physicians are holding their breath for when public health emergency orders are lifted, as it could mean a significant dropoff in telehealth coverage for Medicare and Medicaid patients.

Nearly half of Puerto Rico's population could lose health coverage without additional Medicaid funding from Congress, ABC News reported July 22.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana members covered by an integrated "carved-in" pharmacy benefit experience slower growth in medical spending compared to those whose pharmacy benefits are separate from their plans, according to a study published by the American…

A contract dispute between BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CHI Memorial Health Care System could leave thousands of state residents without in-network coverage, according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press article on Yahoo's website. 

A district judge dismissed a pair of lawsuits from Humana and Centene against Indivior over alleged attempts to suppress competition of Suboxone, its opioid recovery drug.