Health Insurers to Investors: We’re Good. Health Insurers to Lawmakers: Please Help. - ProPublica

To lawmakers, AHIP made it sound like insurance companies were squeezed from both sides. “Health insurance plans are bracing for an extraordinary increase in costs related to treating patients ... Read More

Health Insurance Change to Improve Service for 257 Million Americans

This latest move by health insurers will give patients faster access to health care with "fewer challenges navigating the health system." ... Read More

5 takeaways from health insurers’ new pledge to improve prior authorization

The largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system. Here are five takeaways. Read More

STAT Health Tech: How health insurers are using AI

In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: How health insurers are using artificial intelligence for efficiency and financial gains, and more. Read More

Doctors Say Dealing With Health Insurers Is Only Getting Worse - MSN

Medicare Advantage plans, a popular form of health insurance, denied 7.4% of 46.2 million requests submitted on behalf of enrollees in 2022, up from 5.7% in 2019, according to an analysis of ... Read More

Offering health insurance is becoming less lucrative

In the third quarter, the seven major publicly traded insurers’ medical loss ratios increased an average of 3.3 percentage points year over year — a major jump in medical costs. Read More

Health insurers race to embrace AI. Watchdogs say slow down

Inside the nation’s largest health insurance companies, artificial intelligence is taking off like a rocket. Elevance, which covers about 110 million people, has rolled out a generative AI model ... Read More

"Medicare for All" giving health-care industry stocks the chills

Bernie Sanders on the role of insurance companies under "Medicare for All" 02:31 Health care companies' shares slumped this week after the chief executive of UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest ... Read More

ACA health insurers denied 1 in 5 medical claims in 2023: report

teekid. Health insurers selling Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans on the federal health insurance exchange denied on average one out of every five claims requested for medical services in 2023 ... Read More

How health insurers did during the first quarter | Modern Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group was the most profitable insurer and Bright Health Group the least. Here's how publicly traded insurers fared during 2023's first quarter. Read More