Elevance Health plans to acquire a stop-loss insurance subsidiary from Verily, a sister company of Google, the company confirmed in a statement to Becker's Feb. 7. Indianapolis-based Elevance plans to ...
UnitedHealth Group has asked the SEC to exclude two shareholder proposals from its 2025 annual meeting proxy materials that raise concerns about the company’s handling of prior authorization ...
In 2024, health insurers made 482 updates to their public and members-only websites. Website changes appeared more often on the public site (58%) compared to the member site (42%), according to a ...
For the third year in a row, Colorado lawmakers have advanced a bill that would explore the feasibility of a statewide universal healthcare payment system. The proposal mandates the Colorado School of ...
Albany (N.Y.) Med Health System and Capital District Physicians' Health Plan reached a new two-year contract agreement and ended a dispute over alleged underpayments. In August, CDPHP notified the ...
KLAS Research, a healthcare IT data and insights company, named its "Best in KLAS" payer tools for 2025. For its annual rankings, KLAS Research compiled insights from workers at more than 6,000 ...
In 2025, the Medicaid program is facing another period of uncertainty. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, launched under President Donald Trump, is ramping up its efforts to crack down ...
UnitedHealth Group raised concerns with the SEC after hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggested the company's profitability could be "massively overstated," Bloomberg reported Feb. 5. Mr. Ackman ...
Former Humana CEO Bruce Broussard has been named a board advisor to AI care company Sword Health. Sword said in a Feb. 6 news release that with Mr. Broussard's expertise, the company will "accelerate ...
A pair of federal lawmakers have introduced a bill to require some Medicaid recipients to work to receive benefits. Republican Sens. John Kennedy and Eric Schmitt of Louisiana and Missouri, ...
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, through its insurance arm Select Health, rebranded its pharmacy benefit manager to Scripius, a move that highlights the growing trend of health systems ...
Molina Healthcare has closed the acquisition of ConnectiCare, a subsidiary of New York City-based EmblemHealth. The transaction closed Feb. 1, according to a Feb. 3 news release from Molina Healthcare ...