UnitedHealth Expects Pent-Up Care to Return Later in ’21
UnitedHealth Group began the first quarter of 2021 on a high note, reporting earnings per share (EPS) and a medical loss ratio (MLR) that both beat the Wall Street consensus estimate and saying it expects to achieve...
MedSupp Presents Disruption Opportunity for MA Plans
Medicare beneficiaries who shopped and made a coverage change during this last Annual Election Period (AEP) were more likely to stick with their current insurer than in years past, illustrating the dual need for ins...
News Briefs
✦ Enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) grew by 10.8% between February and November 2020 to approximately 78 million, according to an issue brief by the Kaiser Family Foundati...
With New Subsidies, Holdout States May Expand Medicaid
With the passage of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), states that haven’t expanded Medicaid have an extra reason to do so: the COVID-19 relief bill offers financial incentives to states that increase Medicaid eligib...
Experts Dissect Anesthesiologists’ Suit Against UnitedHealth
UnitedHealthcare is facing a pair of headline-grabbing lawsuits that accuse the country’s largest health insurer of forcing U.S. Anesthesia Partners (USAP) out of its network and then using “unlawful tactics and...
Study Challenges Cost-Saving Potential of Urgent Care
Although urgent care centers have long been trumpeted as a more economical care option than the emergency department (ED) for non-life-threatening conditions, a new study suggests that health insurers might want to ...
Health Care Spending Bounces Back, but Still Falls 1% Year Over Year
Although health care utilization started to rebound toward the end of 2020, spending on health care services was down by 1.0% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation....
Insurers, Feds Move to Promote ACA Special Enrollment Period
Both insurers and the federal government are pushing hard to promote the special enrollment period for the federal health insurance exchange: America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is launching an online decision...
News Briefs
✦ Brian Thompson will become the new CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance arm of United- Health Group. Thompson has worked for UnitedHealth since 2004, “and most recently was CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s...