At least three major insurers are eliminating broker commissions for some Medicare Advantage plans. According to documents shared with Becker's, Elevance Health will eliminate commission payments ...

South Dakota voters have approved a ballot measure that allows state officials to consider work requirements for Medicaid expansion recipients, South Dakota Spotlight reported Nov. 6. The approval ...

CVS Health's new CEO is prepared to make "hard choices" to turn around Aetna's performance. On a Nov. 6 earnings call, transcribed by Seeking Alpha, CVS CEO David Joyner said benefit design and price ...

The nation's largest payers have filed their third-quarter earnings reports, revealing which recorded the largest profits.

CVS Health named Steve Nelson as president of Aetna, effective Nov. 6. Here are five things to know about Aetna's new leader: 1. Mr. Nelson started his career as an administrative fellow at Salt Lake ...

Medicare Advantage insurers' stocks rallied upon news of Donald Trump's impending return to the White House, Bloomberg reported Nov. 6. Analysts expect a second Trump administration to boost rates for ...

Illinois voters have passed an advisory referendum aimed at requiring all health plans that cover pregnancy to also cover in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and other assisted reproductive treatments on ...

California voters approved a measure to make an existing tax on managed care plans to help fund Medi-Cal, Cal Matters reported Nov. 5. The measure earmarks between $2 billion and $5 billion of special ...

Medicare Advantage plans were paid more than $1 billion for veterans who did not use any Medicare services, according to a study published in the November issue of Health Affairs. The number of ...

CMS has lifted an enrollment suspension on a UnitedHealthcare subsidiary's Medicare Advantage plan following three years of not meeting the required 85% medical loss ratio. In September 2023, CMS ...

Phoenix Children's is out of network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona as of Oct. 31. BCBS Medicaid plans are not affected by the negotiations, according to Phoenix Children's. In a statement on ...

Utah had the highest percentage of residents covered under employer-sponsored health plans last year, according to an analysis from KFF. KFF used data from the Census Bureau's American Community ...