Top 40 articles from the past 6 months

• Layoffs hit Optum
• UnitedHealthcare warned of rising healthcare utilization rates. Is pickleball to blame?
• 15 payers cutting jobs
• Former Medicare Advantage organization executive charged in multimillion dollar fraud scheme
• 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
• Elevance Health cuts jobs as company confirms 'changes'
• CMS halts Medicaid redeterminations in 'half-dozen states'
• Cigna to pay $172M over alleged Medicare Advantage fraud
• 18 top execs that have recently left Optum
• The 2-midnight rule and Medicare Advantage: 6 things to know
• Optum to acquire Amedisys 
• Payers crack down on Ozempic prescriptions
• Health system-payer negotiations go awry
• Centene to cut 2,000 jobs
• Cigna reportedly considering selling Medicare Advantage business
• Cigna, Humana 'in talks' to merge
• Judge certifies class action in Aetna, Optum 'dummy code' lawsuit
• Why this UnitedHealth Group employee joined 'the Bachelorette'
• Ascension drops weight loss drug coverage for employees
• UnitedHealth wants to make weight loss drugs cheaper
• Why a South Dakota health system is dropping Medicare Advantage
• Aetna, Optum can't escape class-action status in 'dummy code' case
• 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
• Cigna reduces workforce
• UnitedHealthcare hits back at Prisma Health lawsuit
• How CVS, Walgreens are the front door to Medicaid redeterminations
• Cigna sued following ProPublica report on unreviewed batches of denied claims
• Aetna plans another round of layoffs; 2023 cuts total 600
• UnitedHealthcare's 2nd wave of prior authorization cuts begins
• Kraft Heinz sues Aetna for alleged claims data mismanagement 
• White House taking aim at surprise medical bills, 'junk' insurance
• Ozempic demand is driving up care costs nationwide
• Eli Lilly overtakes UnitedHealth Group as world's largest healthcare firm
• Blue Shield of California shrugs CVS for Mark Cuban, Amazon pharmacies
• CMS: Medicare Advantage received $16.6B in improper payments in 2023