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UnitedHealth Group has invited its 330,000 employees to return to the company's offices.

Five Blue Cross Blue Shield plans are funding and collaborating with Evio, a Denver-based pharmacy solutions startup, to track the effectiveness of various drugs across their nearly 20 million members, the startup announced June 22. 

Cigna's 14 million behavioral health customers will have access to telepsychiatry platform Brightside.

Centene Corp. is nearing the completion of the first of two construction phases for its East Coast headquarters, set to be initially operational in 2022. The insurer shared additional details on the planned Charlotte, N.C.-based facility during its June 21…

Aetna, a payer owned by CVS Health, has launched a specialty provider network focused on suicide prevention. 

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid from three private health insurers claiming they were owed millions of dollars by the federal government for each year they did not receive reimbursements under the Affordable Care Act, NBC News…

The Mississippi State Auditor's Office is investigating OptumRX, UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefits manager, for allegedly overbilling the state's Medicaid program for prescription drugs, the Clarion Ledger reported June 21.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is the Medicare Advantage Plan members are most satisfied with, according to J.D. Power's 2021 U.S. Medicare Advantage Plan Study, released June 17. The study is based on the responses of 3,359 Medicare Advantage members across…

Medicaid enrollment reached an all-time high of 74 million members during the pandemic, a result of a rule change featured in Congress' first coronavirus relief law last year, according to The Washington Post.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill earlier this month making the state's managed health insurance program a public option that will be available for purchase in 2026. Nevada is the second state to enact a public option in response…