Moda Health is discontinuing all individual Medicare Advantage plans and will no longer offer MA plans in Oregon for 2025. Premera Blue Cross will not offer Medicare Advantage plans in 2025. MVP ...

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Payers are trimming their workforces and cutting jobs due to financial or operational challenges, along with restructuring strategies. Below are workforce reduction efforts or job eliminations that ...

In 2024, at least 19 top executives previously with UnitedHealth Group's Optum have announced their departures for new positions with companies across the country. Optum executive departures in 2023 ...

A Texas state judge handed a victory to system-owned health plans that missed out on Texas' Medicaid contract awards, The Dallas Morning News reported Oct. 4. District Judge Laurie Eiserloh issued a ...

UnitedHealthcare is expanding its individual and family ACA marketplace plans to four new states and adding 119 new counties in 13 current states for 2025. The new states are Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska ...

Florida's insurance commissioner has given the green light for Health Care Service Corp. to purchase Cigna's Medicare business in the state. On Sept. 11, Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky signed ...

Authorizing Medicare to cover weight loss drugs would cost the federal government an estimated $35 billion over nine years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. The report ...

Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System is terminating its contract with UnitedHealthcare. In an Oct. 10 news release, the system said it issued a notice of termination to the insurer. The split ...

UnitedHealth Group's policy platform is focused on expanding value-based care. The company published "A Path Forward" Sept. 12, laying out its top policy priorities and vision for the future of the ...

More Medicaid plans received 4 and 4.5 star ratings from the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 2024 than in 2023. The NCQA published its 2024 ratings of health plans Sept. 15. The rating ...

UPMC Health Plan named Mary Beth Jenkins president and CEO, effective Jan. 1. Consortium Health Plans named Lori Schoonmaker as CEO. Molina Healthcare named Mark Margiotta as senior vice president of ...