Nearly 70% of Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with an opioid use disorder did not receive appropriate medications — such as buprenorphine, methadone or naltrexone — within 180 days of diagnosis, ...

Legally residing refugees and asylees will face new challenges with accessing health insurance coverage. The 2025 budget law will cut Medicaid spending by about $1 trillion over 10 years, and Medicaid ...

Jenny Smith is the Hawaii Medical Service Association’s new COO and first female president. Her priorities as the organization’s operational lead are not overly fancy, but she does not think that ...

Trade association America’s Health Insurance Plans published its state-by-state report on health coverage Nov. 12. Calculations for the average salaries of health plan employees are based on U.S.

Trade association America’s Health Insurance Plans published its state-by-state report on health coverage Nov. 12. The organization identified 697,928 health plan employees and 1,301,167 ...

U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., have reintroduced a bill to widen access to lung cancer screenings, according to a Nov. 20 news release ...

California patients are suing Blue Shield of California and Magellan Health over alleged inaccurate mental health provider directories, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Nov. 19. The lawsuit ...

Eli Lilly plans to launch a direct-to-employer model for its GLP-1 medications in early 2026 in a move aimed at giving companies more flexibility in designing obesity management benefits for their ...

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At the Fall 2025 Becker’s Payer Issues Roundtable, CareSource Senior Vice President Todd Carlson participated in a fireside chat on how the nonprofit payer is modernizing its technology infrastructure ...

Vermont has the highest average ACA benchmark premium in 2026, while New Hampshire has the lowest, according to KFF. The U.S. average is $625. Premiums were analyzed using the second-lowest cost ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill Nov. 18 requiring insurance companies to extend autism behavioral therapy coverage to include individuals up to 26 years old. Behavioral therapy for autism ...