Susan Morse
The value-based models resulted in 6 percent fewer hospital inpatient admissions and 7 percent fewer emergency department visits.
The government said it intends to collect from insurers the full 2016 risk corridors payments this month.
The Senate Finance Committee is currently considering a tax reform bill that eliminates the mandate and penalty for not having coverage.
Despite GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, 470,000 more consumers this year have signed up during the first two weeks of open enrollment.
Analysts speculate that Humana may be preparing for another merger attempt following its failed deal with Aetna.
Pharmaceutical sales rep recruited patients to obtain expensive and medically unnecessary compounded medications.
The insurer's president tells Hartford HealthCare execs that it would send over a list of neutral mediators.
However, on Thursday the insurance giant held job fair seeking to hire more than 1,000 military veterans and their spouses.
The insurance industry group says it will work with CMS in testing a demonstration for clinicians to receive APM credit for participating in financial risk-based arrangements with Medicare Advantage plans.
Healthier people would be less likely to get insurance and because of premium increases, fewer people would get coverage, the CBO says.