Two new Kaiser Family Foundation analyses suggest that lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60 could significantly reduce health costs for employers. The shift could potentially facililate lower premiums or higher wages for employees.
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Former UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann was paid $17.87 million in 2020, his final year at the organization before retiring.
Humana will become the full owner of the nation's largest home health and hospice provider, Kindred at Home.
The voluntary waiving of COVID-19 treatment fees by insurers is slowly coming to an end, according to NBC News and Kaiser Health News.
Centene Corp. saw its revenue and profit climb in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 as the insurer continues to benefit from its WellCare Health Plans deal and lower medical use during the pandemic.
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Cigna CEO David Cordani sold 6,207 shares of the company's stock on April 21, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing and MarketBeat.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has appointed Tich Changamire, MD, PhD, as its new CMO.
Sixteen U.S. senators signed a letter to President Joe Biden April 25 requesting an expansion of Medicare benefits and to lower the eligibility age to 50.
CMS will allocate $80 million in grants to navigators for its health insurance marketplace in 2022, marking the largest funding amount CMS has made available to the program to date, according to an April 21 press release from HHS.
IngenioRx, Anthem's pharmacy benefit manager, had an operating revenue of $5.9 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up 12.8 percent year over year, according to recent financial statements.