Elevance Health's health services arm, Carelon, intends to purchase Nashville-based CareBridge, a value-based home and community-based care provider for patients with chronic and complex needs. In an ...

Elevance Health sold Miami-based Pasteur Medical Centers and Wellmax Medical Centers to Las Mercedes Medical Centers, which is also headquartered in Miami. Pasteur operates 11 medical clinics across ...

Four insurers have been named the best Medicare Part D carriers for 2025 by U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News consulted with Medicare experts to determine the important factors for those enrolling ...

Four insurers have been named the best Medicare Advantage carriers for 2025 by U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News used CMS star ratings data and more than 30 quality measures from the agency to ...

A novel approach to behavioral healthcare is desperately needed as we navigate the youth mental health crisis, which U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has described as the “defining public health ...

Elevance Health executives say financial challenges in its Medicaid business will be temporary. The company reported its third quarter earnings Oct. 17. The company cut its earnings outlook for 2024 ...

Community health plans could be facing hundreds of millions in losses in Medicaid this year due to inadequate state payment rates, according to the Alliance of Community Health Plans. Ceci Connolly, ...

Several insurers are disputing CMS' Medicare Advantage star ratings. For 2025, just seven plans received a five-star rating from CMS, down from 38 in 2024. The overall average rating was 3.92, down ...

Cigna and Humana have renewed talks of a potential merger, Bloomberg reported Oct. 18. The companies called off a planned merger in late 2023 after a disagreement over the price of the deal, according ...

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is seeking more answers from UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty regarding the February cyberattack against its Change Healthcare subsidiary, the ...

Aetna has launched SimplePay Health, a health plan with no deductibles and exact costs for covered services. The plan is available for self-insured Aetna clients, according to an Oct. 15 news release.

Regence BlueShield of Idaho will remain as the state's health plan administrator after a state judge dismissed a lawsuit from Blue Cross of Idaho that looked to invalidate the new contract, the Idaho ...