The physician shortage is real and worsening. Trusted and accessible pharmacists can help, and looking for business model to support the investment.
Alignment Healthcare is bolstering its C-suite, adding the chairman’s role to CEO John Kao’s duties while promoting executives as the provider of Medicare Advantage grows.
Health insurance companies including UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health’s Aetna and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are seeing lower costs. But there’s trouble ahead.
Oscar Health swung to a $679 million first quarter profit – the highest in company history – as its health plan membership jumped more than 50% and medical costs eased.
Alignment Healthcare reported net income$11 million as costs of care for older adults in its Medicare Advantage plans eased amid industry struggles with medical expenses.
Cigna will exit the individual health insurance business also known as Obamacare, leaving about 369,00 health plan members in 11 states looking for new coverage in 2027.
Humana reported first quarter net income of nearly $1.2 billion as costs of care for older adults in its Medicare Advantage plans eased a bit but remained high.
Health insurer Centene reported first quarter net income of $1.5 billion despite a 2 million enrollee drop in Obamacare enrollment.
Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company and Humana’s CenterWell Pharmacy confirmed they have formed a partnership “to develop new end-to-end employer prescription solutions.”
Specialty drugs are an increasing worry for health plans and employers as new and innovative therapies enter the U.S. market and patients flock to them.