Payer

In healthcare's current fee-for-service landscape, it might be difficult to imagine a world without prior authorizations. But as more hospitals and payers shift to value-based care contracting and embrace analytical data-sharing, the burdens and inefficiencies associated with the prior authorization…

Nearly 900 employees at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston who have been temporarily laid off will see their monthly health insurance premiums covered by two donors, according to local news station Count On News 2.

UnitedHealth Group may offer premium rebates to employers and grant payment plans to customers to help shore up its employer-sponsored health plan business, according to the Star Tribune.

Molina Healthcare is giving employees bonuses and accelerating payments to providers to help with costs related to COVID-19, the health insurer said April 15.

UnitedHealth Group ended the first quarter of 2020 with a $3.4 billion profit, according to financial results released April 15.

Molina Healthcare terminated its agreement to acquire all the capital stock of NextLevel Health Partners, a Medicaid managed care organization in Illinois.

The following payer executives changed their positions in April.

Brown & Toland Physicians in Oakland, Calif., will join Blue Shield of California subsidiary Altais, the organizations said April 10.

CMS released a guidance April 11 that outlines the Trump administration's new COVID-19 coverage requirements for private health plans.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will maintain pay and benefits for its employed clinicians who volunteer to help treat COVID-19 cases, among other initiatives to address the pandemic in the state, the insurer said April 3.