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UnitedHealthcare has at least 75% of the Medicare Advantage market in three cities, according to the American Medical Association. 

UnitedHealthcare and Cigna Healthcare are facing lawsuits from members or their families alleging the organizations use automated data tools to wrongfully deny members' medical claims. The allegations come amid broader ongoing conversations among policymakers around insurers' use of algorithms and…

Select Health and Kroger Health are launching co-branded Medicare Advantage plans across four states in 2024.

Two Cigna members have filed a class-action complaint against their insurer for allegedly denying large batches of members' claims without individual review, thereby denying them coverage for certain services.

A combination of Medicaid redeterminations and a sluggish economy is expected to slow commercial enrollment in the health insurance sector and negatively impact earnings in the second half of 2023, according to a July analysis from Moody's shared with Becker's.

UPMC Health Plan has launched its Health Access Initiative for Recovery program, which will provide mental health services to Medicaid enrollees in barbershops and hair salons.

The nation's largest payers have filed their first-quarter earnings reports, detailing revenue and profit totals. Becker's analyzed financial earnings at each company as a whole, along with their individual health benefits segments.

Executives from Elevance Health and Molina Healthcare are among the six new members appointed to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission. 

UnitedHealth Group's chief legal officer Rupert Bondy received a total compensation package of $11.3 million in 2022 as the company fought the Justice Department's attempt to block an acquisition of data company Change Healthcare.

Clover Health is settling one of several class action lawsuits that accused the insurtech of misleading investors and committing securities fraud preceding its initial public offering in 2021.