UnitedHealth's Optum first announced its plans to merge with Amedisys in June 2023. The Baton Rouge, La.-based company was founded in 1982 and provides home health, hospice and high-acuity care ...

Two major Medicare changes signed into law in the Inflation Reduction Act will take effect in 2025. Here are five things to know about the changes coming in 2025: Beginning in 2025, out-of-pocket ...

The year 2024 proved to be a pivotal and tumultuous period for the health insurance industry, defined by the shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO and the largest cyberattack in the sector's ...

HHS' Office of Inspector General estimated three Medicare Advantage insurers received around $11.4 million in overpayments. The government watchdog published audits of three MA plans Dec. 23-26. The ...

The year 2024 will be remembered as one full of unprecedented challenges and turmoil for the nation's largest healthcare company. From the tragic and targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...

While most Medicare Advantage plans offer dental benefits, few of these benefits are comprehensive, a study published Dec. 26 in JAMA found. Here are three things to note: More than 85% of Medicare ...

UnitedHealthcare and Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health have reached a new multi-year contract. All UnitedHealthcare-insured patients will continue to have access to all of VMFH's ...

An insurer reached a nearly $100 million settlement over allegations of overpayments, and CMS plans to sunset a value-based model over "unprecedented" costs. Here are seven Medicare Advantage updates ...

UnitedHealth Group has optimized its ability to increase Medicare Advantage members' sickness scores and corresponding government payments by directly employing thousands of physicians at Optum and ...

Climate change is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for the health insurance industry. "The top trends that I am following are climate change and geriatric care," Pleasant Radford, Health ...

Priority Health has closed on its purchase Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, a Fort Wayne-based payer with more than 50,000 members in Indiana and Ohio. The acquisition was first announced ...