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Americans in the top-ranked states are more likely to report receiving high-quality, proactive care from their providers and to experience fewer barriers to accessing health care services, including challenges related to finding providers, transportation and personal health or mobility limitations.

A plan participant filed a complaint earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Centene Management, a subsidiary of Centene Corp., which serves as the legal sponsor and administrator of certain employee benefit plans.

Approximately half of business owners surveyed believe that local (53%), national (48%), and global (45%) economies will improve over the next year.

Eighty-five percent of health plan leaders struggle with provider data inaccuracies, with an average of 19% of their data considered unreliable, a new report found.

Jeff Smedsrud says the products can help group health plan enrollees cope with rising out-of-pocket costs and others cope with uncertainty.

The Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act of 2025 bill would require federal agencies to publish a regulatory impact analysis for most rules with an anticipated annual economic impact of $100 million or more.