Top 40 articles from the past 6 months

• Layoffs hit Optum
• UnitedHealthcare warned of rising healthcare utilization rates. Is pickleball to blame?
• Optum quietly buys New York physician group
• Cigna gets order barring ex-executive from taking CVS role
• Prisma Health files for temporary restraining order against UnitedHealthcare amid contract negotiations
• CVS Health to lay off 521 Aetna employees
• UnitedHealthcare, Cigna halt policies after pushback
• UnitedHealthcare's prior authorization cuts to begin Sept. 1
• CMS halts Medicaid redeterminations in 'half-dozen states'
• Highest-paid payer CEOs in 2022
• 12 payers cutting jobs
• The 2-midnight rule and Medicare Advantage: 6 things to know
• Medicaid redeterminations are going worse than expected, experts say
• Optum to acquire Amedisys 
• Health system-payer negotiations go awry
• 13 top execs that have recently left Optum
• Cigna to pay $172M over alleged Medicare Advantage fraud
• UnitedHealthcare ordered to pay Envision $91M in billing dispute
• Intermountain's 'biggest opportunity for growth' is about to get a lot bigger
• Payers crack down on Ozempic prescriptions
• Judge certifies class action in Aetna, Optum 'dummy code' lawsuit
• Why this UnitedHealth Group employee joined 'the Bachelorette'
• 100 things to know about Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Centene to cut 2,000 jobs
• Ascension drops weight loss drug coverage for employees
• Average hospital payer mix in every state
• Why a South Dakota health system is dropping Medicare Advantage
• Optum in the headlines: 8 updates
• CMS finalizes rule addressing Medicare Advantage marketing, prior authorization
• 65% of health plans 'very concerned' about off-label use of Ozempic, other weight loss drugs
• Bon Secours sues Anthem BCBS for $93M, alleging unpaid claims
• Aetna, Optum can't escape class-action status in 'dummy code' case
• UnitedHealth Group's 5 highest-paid executives
• How CVS, Walgreens are the front door to Medicaid redeterminations
• UnitedHealthcare hits back at Prisma Health lawsuit
• Cigna sued following ProPublica report on unreviewed batches of denied claims
• Sanders reintroduces single-payer Medicare bill with record sponsors
• UnitedHealthcare backs off controversial GI prior authorization policy
• White House taking aim at surprise medical bills, 'junk' insurance
• Kraft Heinz sues Aetna for alleged claims data mismanagement