CVS hikes adjusted earnings guidance as Aetna performance improves

The company raised its outlook as many insurers are struggling with elevated medical costs in the second quarter.

By Emily Olsen • July 31, 2025

UHS posts softer-than-expected volumes for second consecutive quarter

In light of the results, executives backed away from prior behavioral health growth targets for 2025, though they slightly raised the midpoint of overall revenue guidance.

By Susanna Vogel • July 30, 2025

Humana hikes 2025 guidance on medical cost control, pharmacy growth

The health insurer’s results are a bright spot in what’s otherwise been a gloomy quarter for the sector. Humana says it has a handle on snowballing medical costs after taking a conservative stance heading into the year.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 30, 2025

UnitedHealth expects lower profits in 2025 amid medical cost spike

The beleaguered company plans to focus on business fundamentals, cut Medicare Advantage plans, raise prices and forge a new relationship with regulators as it slogs its way back to favored status with Wall Street.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 29, 2025

Why healthcare must finally retire the paper check

It’s time for healthcare to retire the paper check for good. Here’s why.

By Brian Young • July 28, 2025

Depressed volumes drag CHS’ second-quarter earnings

Executives said the declines were due to flagging consumer confidence. Also, CEO Tim Hingtgen announced he plans to step down in September.

By Sydney Halleman • July 25, 2025

Centene stock hits decade low after insurer reports rare loss on higher medical costs

The St. Louis-based payer slipped into the red during the second quarter for the first time since 2022. Centene executives said they were disappointed and frustrated by the results.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 25, 2025

Molina cuts 2025 earnings outlook again on ACA, Medicaid pressures

The California-based insurer outlined its plans to survive what CEO Joe Zubretsky deemed a “season of great uncertainty” stemming from roiling acuity shifts and looming policy changes.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 24, 2025

Tenet raises 2025 expectations, but dodges questions about policy impacts

During an earnings call, the system's executives declined to say how the GOP's recently passed megabill, which includes steep cuts to healthcare programs, would impact the company.

By Sydney Halleman • July 23, 2025

Hospitals are buying more doctor’s offices. That’s tied to higher costs, study finds

A new National Bureau of Economic Research analysis links hospital-physician consolidation to lower competition and higher costs down the line. The American Hospital Association slammed the study as flawed.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 22, 2025

Humana refiles Medicare Advantage star ratings suit

Humana is taking a second bite at the apple to improve its sunken MA stars, filing an edited complaint with a Texas court on Monday. The insurer also announced plans to pare back its prior authorization policies.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 22, 2025

Bankrupt Steward sues former CEO over alleged financial mismanagement

The health system alleges Ralph de la Torre and other former leaders “pilfered” the company’s assets and led to its collapse last year.

By Emily Olsen • July 18, 2025

Elevance cuts 2025 guidance as profit falls from higher ACA, Medicaid costs

The insurer attempted to reassure investors that it can operate through looming policy changes that appear set to worsen existing challenges. It was unsuccessful: Elevance’s stock fell 11% following the second quarter results.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 17, 2025

Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study

Coverage losses linked to the massive tax and policy law could drive up excess deaths and preventable hospitalizations by 2034, according to the study in JAMA Health Forum.

By Emily Olsen • July 16, 2025

CVS beats out UnitedHealth for CalPERS pharmacy benefits contract

The contract, though sizable, is likely immaterial to CVS’ earnings. But it moves the company in a positive direction as it struggles with recent challenges, an analyst said.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 16, 2025

Judge nixes Biden-era rule removing medical debt from credit reports

It’s a victory for the credit reporting industry and a loss for advocates of reducing medical debt. The Trump administration had declined to defend the rule in court.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 15, 2025

Nursing home operator Genesis Healthcare files for bankruptcy

Affiliates of Genesis’ investor ReGen Healthcare, a private equity firm, have entered into a deal to acquire Genesis, according to bankruptcy court documents.

By Sydney Halleman • July 11, 2025

Alignment Healthcare wins partial victory in Medicare Advantage star ratings case

A judge agreed that the CMS should recalculate the scores for one Alignment plan in Arizona. Now, all of the insurer’s MA members are in plans rated four stars or higher.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 10, 2025

AI startups boost digital health funding in H1: Rock Health

Digital health companies that use AI as a core part of their offerings raised more money on average than companies that didn't in the first half of 2025.

By Emily Olsen • July 9, 2025

CVS Omnicare ordered to pay $949 million in government fraud case

CVS plans to appeal the judgment, which comes after a jury ruled that its long-term care pharmacy benefits manager illegally charged Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for prescription drugs for almost a decade.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 9, 2025

Molina cuts earnings guidance as costs rise in government programs

UnitedHealth and Centene both pulled their outlooks this year over elevated medical spending in Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act respectively. Now, cost pressures are hitting their smaller peer.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 7, 2025

340B could have a new cop on the beat. Hospitals are worried.

The HHS wants to move oversight of the controversial drug discount program to the CMS, which has a more aggressive history with 340B than its covered providers would prefer. “It could be truly devastating,” one expert said.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 2, 2025

6 ways employers can lower healthcare costs in 2025

“Employers have absorbed the majority of cost increases over the past four years, and they likely cannot continue to do so,” one expert said.

By Michael Brady • July 1, 2025

Walgreens swings to a loss ahead of Sycamore acquisition

Store closures and weak front-of-store sales led to a retail sales decline in Q3, but U.S. pharmacy and international sales were strong.

By Daphne Howland • June 26, 2025

Medicare go-broke date pushed up three years in latest trustees report

The clock is ticking to stabilize Medicare, as a key trust fund underpinning the insurance program’s hospital benefit is now set to be depleted in 2033 instead of 2036.

By Rebecca Pifer • June 20, 2025