A federal judge ruled Sept. 4 that health insurers are entitled to unpaid cost-sharing reduction payments, which help insurers subsidize the cost of coverage for low-income Americans, according to a Health Affairs blog post.
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The Arkansas State Department of Human Services said 4,574 Medicaid beneficiaries lost their health insurance Sept. 1 after failing to comply with the program's work requirements for three months, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Health System agreed to a multiyear agreement with Aetna, an Aetna spokesperson confirmed with Becker's Hospital Review.
ACA premiums are expected to rise by an average of 3.6 percent in 2019, according to an analysis by Avalere and the Associated Press.
The Justice Department is approaching a formal approval of proposed mergers between CVS Health and Aetna, as well as Cigna and Express Scripts, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
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Fitch Ratings downgraded Cigna to "BBB" from "A-" due to the health insurer's financing of up to $24 billion in new debt to buy Express Scripts.
As payers increasingly turn to alternate modes of care delivery as a way to keep patients with low-acuity conditions out of expensive emergency departments, recent evidence suggests that urgent care centers and retail clinics — not telehealth — appear to…
CMS wrongly sent termination notices to more than 38,000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Star Tribune.
Cigna appointed Gina Papush to its newly created global chief data and analytics officer position Sept. 4.
Medicaid paid for about 2 in 5 births, or 43 percent of all deliveries, in 2017, according to recent data from the CDC.