Oscar Health is rolling out new plans for 2025. The insurer will offer individual plans in 504 markets in 18 states, according to an Oct. 21 news release. Oscar will add new markets in Texas, Oklahoma ...

Gordon Smith has been elected to Humana's board of directors. Mr. Smith currently serves as an operating advisor for private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, according to an Oct. 23 Humana news ...

Elevance Health is laying off 123 employees in Southern California, according to regulatory documents filed with the state Oct. 14. Elevance will lay off 59 employees at Anthem Blue Cross in Woodland ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed expanding Medicare coverage for home healthcare, NPR reported Oct. 8. Ms. Harris explained the details of her proposal on daytime talk show The View, campaign ...

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 ...

Wall Street analysts say a potential Cigna-Humana merger depends on the results of the presidential election, Bloomberg reported Oct. 21. Scott Fidel, an analyst with Stephens, wrote that the merger ...

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 ...

Insurers are offering early prescription refills and easing prior authorizations as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida. The category four storm is expected to make landfall in the Tampa Bay region on ...

Blue Shield of California is partnering with Salesforce on a new platform solution that aims to make prior authorization simpler and faster. The platform will be built on Salesforce Health Cloud, and ...

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 ...