Analysts at the Congressional Budget Office think members of Congress will need to know a lot about small employers’ health benefits this fall. The CBO posted a comprehensive guide to the small-employer health benefit market Tuesday. The agency’s analysts looked at options such as traditional self-insured health plans; association health plans; and ICHRA plans. High ...
Centene subsidiary Health Net is pulling out of the commercial employer group market in California and Oregon, the company confirmed to Becker’s. “Health Net has made the decision to exit the traditional commercial group business in California and Oregon in order to focus on government sponsored healthcare,” a spokesperson for the insurer said in a statement. ...
Mark Farrah Associates (MFA) — a leading data aggregator of health plan market data and analysis tools for the healthcare industry — has compared year-over-year profitability for the Individual, Employer-Group, Medicare Advantage, and managed Medicaid health insurance segments. “For 2025, the Individual and Group segments experienced declines in both membership and profitability, with the Individual ...
Dolly Parton, the country music icon known for hits like “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You,” died Aug. 25 in Nashville, Tenn., at the age of 80, after a brief battle with cancer. Beyond her music and film career, Ms. Parton spent decades directing philanthropic dollars toward hospitals and medical research, much ...
It’s been nine months since the opening of the country’s largest all-electric acute care hospital in Irvine, California. UCI Health was already in the planning stages of its new Irvine campus when the University of California (UC) established a policy that no new or renovated buildings could burn fossil fuels for space and water heating. ...
Insurance broker Aon announced on Monday it will purchase rival USI Insurance Services from private equity firm KKR. The $17 billion deal, which will be funded by Aon with new debt, is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals. CEO Greg Case in an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday said that the merger ...