CVS Health will not sell its Aetna health plans in the ACA's individual marketplaces in 2026, marking the second time in the past decade that Aetna has given up on ACA coverage.
The Trump administration on Thursday filed a lawsuit against three of the country's biggest insurance companies, accusing them of shelling out hundreds of millions 'in illegal kickbacks' to insurance brokers 'in exchange for enrollments into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.'
A key House committee is pushing forward with trying to advance its portion of President Trump's legislative agenda next week, even as Republicans disagree over how deeply to cut Medicaid. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning a May 7 meeting to finalize and advance its portion of the bill, leaving little time for members to iron out differences. The legislation calls for the committee to find $880 billion in savings over a decade, with most of it expected to come from health programs.
The Supreme Court sided on Tuesday with HHS in a dispute over the rate under Medicare the government pays to hospitals that serve low-income patients. The 7-2 decision rejected an attempt from a group of more than 200 hospitals across 30 states to change the formula the government uses to calculate reimbursement for hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients.
House Republicans discussed a new, controversial proposal to cut federal spending for Medicaid in a closed-door meeting late Monday night, as lawmakers even beyond the moderate bloc are warning GOP leaders they will not swallow another alternative. According to four Republicans who were present for the meeting of GOP members of Energy and Commerce — convened to finalize their panel's portion of the party's megabill — lawmakers discussed at length a new version of a plan to place so-called 'per capita caps' on Medicaid funding to certain beneficiaries in states that have expanded the program under the ACA.
A group of former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee employees allegedly fired after declining to get the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons are nearing a settlement with the insurance provider, a federal status report shows. The complaint was filed by three former employees who claimed they were fired in 2021 after their respective religious accommodation requests were denied.