The Connecticut Insurance Department fined Aetna, Cigna, ConnectiCare, UnitedHealthcare and Anthem over alleged mental health parity violations, according to an April 15 department report. The report ...

Imagine your plan has a member in Wisconsin needing open heart surgery. The procedure would cost at least $200,000 in state, but Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System could do it for $80,000.

UnitedHealth Group posted $6.28 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2026, dipping slightly compared to the same period last year. The company released first-quarter earnings April 21, raising ...

Roughly 50 insurers signed an AHIP (formerly America’s Health Insurance Plans) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association commitment to standardize electronic prior authorization across most medical ...

Editor’s note: This list only reflects the compensation categories each person received. At the Becker's 5th Annual Fall Payer Issues Roundtable, taking place November 2–3 in Chicago, payer executives ...

UnitedHealthcare is expanding rural healthcare initiatives to cover the entire U.S., according to an April 20 news release shared with Becker’s. These efforts include accelerating payments by up to 50 ...

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and its insurer arm, Jefferson Health Plans, are reckoning with GLP-1 costs for its members and 65,000 employees. “Many insurers, including Medicaid programs in ...

UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley topped the list of the highest-paid payer CEOs in 2025 — and it wasn’t by a small margin. The caveat is, as Mr. Hemsley stepped back into the C-suite in 2025, ...

As a growing number of hospitals and health systems walk away from Medicare Advantage contracts, Cleveland Clinic is moving in the opposite direction, betting that the path forward runs through the ...

Optum Rx — the pharmacy benefit manager for UnitedHealth Group — claims its “PreCheck” prior authorization tool not only cuts prescription approval times but also reduces denials and appeals.

For years, employers absorbed rising healthcare costs quietly: adjusting plan designs, shifting more expense to workers and hoping the next contract cycle would bring relief. That era may be ending.