Montana’s powerful hospital lobby was instrumental in renewing the state’s Medicaid expansion program and has also fended off most legislation to increase state oversight of their business.
Category: Health Insurance
Arkansas governor backs bill to ban PBMs from owning pharmacies
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has advanced legislation that would seek to bar pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, claiming that PBMs are taking advantage of lax regulations.
According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of thi…
Crozer Health to close, laying off over 2,600 employees
Prospect Medical Holdings has filed a motion to close Crozer Health and all of the outpatient facilities licensed with the Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a bankruptcy update from Delaware County Pennsylvania.
Elevance health meets expectations with $2.2B in Q1 profit
Despite elevated medical costs, Elevance Health managed to perform more or less in line with expectations in the first quarter, bringing in $2.2 billion in profit, a slight decrease from the $2.25 billion in profit reported in Q1 2024.
Revenue was up y…
The Ranks of Obamacare ‘Fixers’ Axed in Trump’s Reduction of Health Agency Workforce
These fixers, officially known as caseworkers, unraveled complex and arcane health insurance rules to solve people’s coverage issues. They worked in a little-known federal department with which most consumers never interact — until they need help.
Nurses decry potential HHS funding cuts
The American Nurses Association has expressed concerns over a leaked draft of the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, saying cuts to federal nursing research and workforce development would hamper the national healthcare system…
26 rural hospitals launch the Ohio High Value Network
Twenty-six rural hospitals have launched the Ohio High Value Network for a clinically integrated system covering 2.5 million patients.
The network will share clinical and business initiatives, operations and best practices. It will collaborate to contr…
Supreme Court to hear arguments on ACA requirement to cover preventive services
The Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a case revolving around the constitutionality of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which determines which preventive services must be covered by the Affordable Care Act at no cost to the patient.
Luigi Mangione indicted on charge of murder
Luigi Mangione has been indicted on a count of murder through the use of a firearm in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The charge makes him eligible for the death penalty.
UnitedHealth’s stock drops 23% after ‘unusual and unacceptable’ performance
UnitedHealth Group’s profits took a big year-over-year leap, according to its newly released first-quarter earnings, but it cut its earnings guidance due to unexpectedly higher care costs in its Medicare Advantage business.
