Premiums for employer-provided coverage could increase by about 5% to 14%, thanks to GLP-1s, according to an Oct. 9 analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. With 55% of employers ...

Republican lawmakers are reviving proposals that failed to make it into the sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act, turning their focus to a trio of measures that could reshape how employers offer health ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is offering a voluntary separation program to about 18% of its employees — totaling nearly 800 people — a company spokesperson told Becker’s. Employees who are ...

Many Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans lack robust behavioral health networks, according to an October brief from the HHS Office of the Inspector General. The OIG analyzed four MA ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers introduced a bill in October to regulate AI use in health insurance, joining a wave of states attempting to add guardrails in the payer space, especially after an early draft of ...

A federal judge in Indiana has thrown out most claims in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing four insurers and six health systems of improperly billing the state’s Medicaid program, but left the door ...

Omaha, Neb.-based GS Labs, a currently nonoperational COVID-19 testing firm, is suing Aetna, alleging the insurer owes over $53 million for more than 100,000 claims related to COVID-19 testing ...

Cigna agreed to settle a “ghost network” class-action lawsuit for $5.7 million, according to federal court filings in Illinois. Plaintiffs Andrew and Andrea Hecht alleged that in 2021, they received ...