UnitedHealthcare could face potential federal fines for allegedly creating misleading advertisements touting its Medicare Advantage plan.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the ads, targeting elderly, low-income and disabled adults, described added benefits, but instead actually restricted access to care.
Health insurance behemoth Cigna is reportedly in advanced talks to sell its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp. for as much as $4 billion.
A cap on the cost of Utah’s program, which starts this month, will limit enrollment to about 2,000 children.
A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the U.S. without authorization, even as Republicans assail President Joe Biden over a dramatic increase in illegal crossings of the southern border.
Eligibility checks for Medicaid were paused during the pandemic. Many people are still losing coverage in the bureaucratic jumble that has ensued since they resumed.
For all the frenzied speculation about how AI can transform health care, some companies are leveraging the technology for a decidedly simpler but still critical task: making shopping for health insurance less terrible.