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2 days ago | marketscreener.com | Sneha K |Amina Niasse

(Reuters) - U.S. health insurer Elevance Health spent less than expected on medical care in the first quarter and said on Tuesday that demand for healthcare services among older adults was inline with expectations, allaying some concerns over elevated medical costs.

2 days ago | today.westlaw.com | Shinjini Ganguli |Sneha K |Amina Niasse |Manas Mishra

(Reuters) - U.S. health insurer Elevance Health spent less than expected on medical care in the first quarter and said on Tuesday that demand for healthcare services among older adults was inline with expectations, allaying some concerns over...

6 days ago | today.westlaw.com | Sriparna Roy |Bhanvi Satija |Anil D'Silva |Amina Niasse

(Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group surprised investors with what its CEO said was an "unusual and unacceptable" quarterly earnings miss, and it lowered its outlook for the full year due to higher-than-expected medical costs, sparking a more than 20%...

1 week ago | thestar.com.my | Amina Niasse |Bhanvi Satija

(Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group is demanding that healthcare providers repay the loans they received from the company after a cyberattack at its tech unit Change Healthcare last year, according to two providers on Friday. The largest U.S. health insurance company loaned out $9 billion to providers who had been struggling after the massive ransomware attack in February last year shut down payment and processing systems, some of which took months to resume.

2 weeks ago | ksl.com | Mariam Sunny |Amina Niasse

WASHINGTON — The U.S. announced a 5.06% average increase in the government's final reimbursement rates for 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans run by private insurers, more than double the increase it proposed in January. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs, had earlier proposed a 2.2% increase in 2026 payments. This is a "welcome change of pace" for the insurers, said Morningstar analyst Julie Utterback.