Arbital Health, a healthcare technology and actuarial leader that centralizes, measures, and adjudicates value-based care contracts at scale, announced its strategic partnership with Aligned Marketplace, an advanced primary care marketplace […]

About 89% of Medicare beneficiaries in 2024 lived in a county where at least half of beneficiaries were enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans sponsored by only one or two insurers, […]

Employers plan to shift more health care plan costs to employees for the 2026 plan year, according to a survey by Mercer, which is part of Marsh McLennan, a global […]

Priority Health, a Michigan-based health plan serving more than 1.3 million members, and Group Health Cooperative of Eau Claire (the Cooperative), a community-based health plan in Wisconsin serving more than […]

Elevance Health (Elevance) settled a class-action complaint alleging that its Anthem commercial health plans applied overly restrictive criteria to claims for residential behavioral health treatment. The plaintiffs alleged that the […]

Lyra Health, which provides mental health benefits for employers, acquired Bend Health Inc., which provides pediatric mental health care. Financial terms were not disclosed. According to the announcement, Lyra Health […]

Throughout the U.S., as many as 760 rural hospitals are vulnerable to closure due to serious financial problems, and 314 of these rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closure […]

The total cost of care for the 5.6 million people in the United States living with dementia is estimated at $781 billion in 2025, and about 30% of the cost […]

About half (49.7%) of all health care expenditures in the United States in 2022 were for people in the top 5% of the expenditure distribution, according to an analysis of […]

An average of $334 billion per year was spent across all payers to treat key diet-related conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and breast and colon cancers, among American adults […]