Lauren Berryman

Highmark Health recorded $13 million in net income during the first quarter, down from a $194 million a year before.

Health insurers, employers and pharmacy benefit managers may be insulated from the immediate effects of drug tariffs, but challenges may emerge.

Three years since COVID-19 abated, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and other insurers are still feeling the hangover, first-quarter earnings reports show.

CVS Health reported $1.8 billion in net income for the first quarter, a 58.5% leap, as revenue increased 7% to $94.6 billion.

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx have fended off federal legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers, but they haven’t been as successful at the state level.

Dr. Patrick Conway will rise from head of UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefit manager to CEO of its healthcare services subsidiary Optum next week.

The plaintiffs say "secret shopper” surveys found that more than 80% of providers listed in directories were out of network or not seeing new patients.

Employers say healthcare spending is their greatest benefits challenge, yet many hesitate to take major cost-cutting steps, according to a Lockton report.

UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, Elevance Health and others continue to reassess executive safety protocols amid heightened security concerns.

Employers say healthcare spending is their greatest benefits challenge, yet many hesitate to take major cost-cutting steps, according to a Lockton report.

Elevance Health saw net income fall 2.9% to $2.2 billion during the first quarter, the insurer announced Tuesday.

Elevance Health saw net income fall 2.9% to $2.2 billion during the first quarter, the insurer announced Tuesday.

UnitedHealth Group is seen as the pacesetter for Medicare Advantage, but some analysts view its poor first quarter as an outlier among its peers.

The average Medicare Advantage patient risk score was 1.26, 0.19 higher than the average fee-for-service Medicare risk score, an Annals of Internal Medicine paper shows.

Leading pharmacy benefit managers are shifting away from lucrative rebates on biologic drugs and toward lower-cost biosimilar generic medicines.

After nearly a century as a purveyor of local Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, Health Care Service Corp. is going national with Medicare.

Employers, including Express Scripts parent company Cigna, seek to manage GLP-1 costs through programs administered by the leading pharmacy benefit managers.

Paul Markovich, president of Blue Shield of California new parent Ascendiun, explains how the nonprofit company aims to compete against bigger insurers.

Cigna is now out of the Medicare business after selling its assets to Blue Cross and Blue Shield carrier Health Care Service Corp.

Eric Palmer, president and CEO of Cigna subsidiary Evernorth Health Services, will depart April 26.