CMS greenlighted Oregon's section 1332 innovation waiver Oct. 19 aimed at shoring up its individual insurance market.
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The Internal Revenue Service will not accept electronically-filed 2018 tax returns lacking information regarding the ACA's health coverage requirements.
The health insurance industry's largest trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans, unveiled its Safe, Transparent Opioid Prescribing initiative.
The percentage of Americans lacking health insurance grew to 12.3 percent in the third quarter of this year, up from 11.7 percent in the previous quarter, according to a Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index poll.
The majority of insurers already finalized plans they will sell during this year's six-week open enrollment period on HealthCare.gov and state-based marketplaces. However, payers fret confusion among the approximately 11 million Americans expected to shop the exchanges beginning Nov. 1…
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Boulder (Colo.) Medical Center and Humana launched a value-based healthcare delivery model for Humana Medicare Advantage policyholders in Colorado.
The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.
Long Beach, Calif.-based Molina Healthcare will lay off 53 employees in Milwaukee beginning Dec. 15, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing.
Indianapolis-based Anthem will establish an in-house pharmacy benefits manager called IngenioRx.
The philanthropic division of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana appointed Walter Woods CEO.