CHICAGO – The American Medical Association has published the newest annual edition of Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets with findings demonstrating the rise of highly concentrated markets for health insurance.
Although Cigna's average revenue growth over the last three years was stronger than Humana's (79% vs. 13%), given the company’s acquisition of Express Scripts in December 2018, expanding the company's pharmacy management business, things changed meaningfully through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Healthcare is ending its contracts with UnitedHealthcare, saying it has been "significantly underpaid" for years compared to neighboring hospitals.
The federal government's six-month health insurance subsidy for jobless workers through the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, or COBRA, will end this week.
In a new initiative to tackle health inequities, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will begin paying doctors more money if they close longstanding and pernicious gaps in care for people of color.