The Blue Cross Blue Shield system is made up of more than 30 independent and locally operated companies. While they share branding and licensing through the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, some ...

Vermont, Utah and Minnesota topped the Commonwealth Fund’s Medicare performance scorecard in 2025, whereas Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana struggled the most. The healthcare research foundation ...

Humana will open primary care clinics at 23 former Walmart Health sites. Walmart will lease the clinics to Humana, according to a July 24 news release. The financial terms of the deal were not ...

Below are workforce reduction efforts or job eliminations that were announced or take effect in 2025. Insurance industry layoffs in 2024 are here. Editor’s Note: This is not an exhaustive list. This ...

Nebraska employers lead the nation in self-funded healthcare benefits, with 73% of the state’s employer-sponsored insurance structured under ERISA rather than purchased from an insurer, according to ...

According to a notice published Dec. 2, the agency plans to grant Medicaid contracts to Humana, CareSource, Molina and UnitedHealthcare. The state’s contracts are currently managed by Amerigroup, a ...

Insurers do not have to own every part of the healthcare system to improve connection, according to Jim Boyman, vice president of GuideWell Health. GuideWell is the parent company of Florida Blue. In ...

The House Appropriations Committee moved forward with an amendment that would block funding for a CMS pilot that brings prior authorization requirements to traditional Medicare. The lawmakers adopted ...

Here are 150 things to know about UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health, CVS Health, Cigna Group, Humana and Centene — six leading health insurers in the U.S. 1. Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth ...

The Medicare-Medicaid contracts will go live on January 1, 2026, and run through December 31, 2029, with extensions of up to five years and six months. The contracts are worth nearly $12 billion total ...

Most of the nation’s largest health payers have a single CEO at the helm and operate under one name across many states. In contrast, Blue Cross and Blue Shield payers function as smaller, independent ...

Delaware’s largest payer controls 93% of the state’s health insurance market, while Washington state’s largest insurer controls just 24%, according to KFF. The 2023 data was obtained from the “Health ...