At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Elevance Health said it would launch a program offering smartphones with unlimited data, talk and texting service at no cost to eligible individuals enrolled in some of its affiliated Medicaid health plans. CES runs through January 12 in Las Vegas.
Over 20 million people have selected an Affordable Care Act health plan since the 2024 Marketplace Open Enrollment Period launched on November 1, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, calling this a record number of enrollments.
At HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, one session about Atlantic Health System’s AI rollout focused on a watershed moment of smart machines and humans integrating, says Sunil Dadlani, EVP and chief information and digital officer.
Since January 1, Baptist Health, based in Louisville, Kentucky, has been out-of-network with UnitedHealthcare and Centene’s Wellcare Medicare Advantage plans, citing denied and delayed prior authorization requests and payments from the insurers. It was the same reason cited by Baptist Health when it went out-of-network with Humana’s Medicare Advantage and commercial health plans last fall.