Care Coordination

Cigna is expanding its Affordable Care Act marketplace reach to three states and reaching more counties in three states it serves. 

Health Plan of Nevada, a UnitedHealthcare subsidiary, secured a four-year contract with the State of Nevada as a managed care organization delivering state Medicaid plans.

Optum has been busy over the last 100 days. Here are six moves from the healthcare innovation company in the past three months.

CMS is encouraging all Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare-Medicaid plans to waive or relax certain prior authorization requirements amid the COVID-19 surge.

Premera Blue Cross signed a multi-year agreement with Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, the insurer announced Aug. 19. 

Recent data shows that patients admitted to short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) have increasingly complicated medical conditions. This has led many hospitals to seek support from experienced management partners in the long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) space to help address…

General Motors allowed 24,000 employees to opt in to a direct contracting agreement with Henry Ford Health System in 2019, and that experiment is showing cost savings promise for Michigan's second largest employer. 

One of the developing insurance battlefields are members who are forced to choose between paying for healthcare needs or basic needs, such as groceries, said Paul Hain, MD, CMO of GoHealth.

Seventy-two percent of the country's largest health plans are no longer waiving out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment, according to research released Aug. 19 by the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

As employees and contractors leave their homes to work, Humana is requiring them to get vaccinated.