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Arizona governor announces ‘first-of-its-kind’ AI insurance review for state Medicaid program

Key Points: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System will use AI tool for prepayment claim review Hobbs announced the tool in response to a directive from the Centers for Medica...

Arizona has no budget, no negotiations and no time. Hobbs should come back to the table.

The Arizona Legislature just passed a budget that ensures that Medicaid enrollees actually qualify for Medicaid. It requires food stamp recipients to meet program rules. It cuts ta...

AHA releases Q1 2026 Health Care Plan Accountability Update

The AHA today released its Health Care Plan Accountability Update, covering the latest developments in Medicare Advantage, legislation and regul...

Arizona prisons face growing number of health care complaints

Key Points:  Inmate lawsuits allege systemic prison health care failures Class action Jensen v. Thornell underpins some individual claims Success in litigation mixed but complaints...

Arizona Bankers Association Partners with Champion Health and AffordaCare Insurance to Deliver Innovative Healthcare Sol...

CHAMP Plan Helps Banks Reduce Healthcare Costs While Expanding No-Cost Access to Everyday Care for Employees

Arizona House Passes Budget Covering Core Services with Tax Relief

Judge looking for swift appointment of new state prison healthcare receiver

Key Points: Federal judge to appoint receiver for Arizona’s prison healthcare system Receiver to oversee care for over 25,000 state inmates Arizona’s prison healthcare system is un...

AHA urges Congress to advance policies that lower costs without reducing access 

The AHA submitted a statement for the record to the House Ways and Means Committee for its April 28 hearing with health system CEOs.In the statement, the AHA outlined steps to impr...

Montana Hurries To Adopt Trump’s Medicaid Work Rules Amid Budget Woes

The state is ramping up to implement the federal work requirements six months ahead of the deadline. But Montana is one of several states already struggling to pay for health servi...

Medicaid Managed Care: The Big Five in Q1 2026

The “Big Five” have reported their financial and enrollment results for the first calendar quarter of 2026. The “Big Five” are the five largest publicly-traded insurers, measured b...

Blue Shield of California’s virtual-first plan continues to show lower costs, increased access for members

The program, which was first launched in 2023 in collaboration with Accolade and TeleMed2U, has more than 150,000 members to date.

Rising ACA Costs Leave Many Unable To Pay for Coverage

THURSDAY, April 16, 2026 — Higher health insurance costs are forcing some people to walk away from coverage even after signing up.About 14% of people who enrolled in Affordable Ca...

DOJ Targets Healthcare Fraud in California, Arizona, Nevada

States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts

Hundreds of hospitals nationwide are bracing for Medicaid cuts as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Some state lawmakers are eyeing loans and other forms of financial aid...

(UPDATED)Governor Hobbs to Republican Legislative ‘Corporations First Arizona Last’ Budget Proposal: DOA

Arizona Legislative Republicans have released their budget proposal, and, in a move signaling the probable restart of negotiations, Governor Katie Hobbs has responded to it. Dead o...

Jo Mendoza Says High Prices and Healthcare Cuts are crushing Arizona Families

Democratic congressional candidate Jo Mendoza said Republican indifference to soaring costs and shrinking healthcare is squeezing families across Arizona’s 6th Congressional Distri...

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - April 2026 #1

News Briefs - 2025 Hospital Expenses Rose by 7.5%, Workforce Expenses Up 5.6% - U.S. hospitals saw total expenses rise by 7.5 percent in 2025, according to the American Hospital As...

More needs to be done to protect Medicare Advantage for the future

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently delivered good news to seniors on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, guaranteeing a 2.48% increase for the 2027 MA rate...

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 – Tribes scramble to save critical healthcare funding

President Donald Trump’s federal budget proposal includes a 75% funding cut to a diabetes prevention and treatment program specifically for Native Americans. It also calls for up t...

HHS’s AERO Initiative - What Hospitals Need to Do Right Now

Key Takeaways HHS launched the AERO initiative on May 21, using AI to re-score at least five years of Single Audit Act compliance data for federally funded entities receiving more...

American Heart Association warns of growing health care cost crisis

With health care costs constituting a major source of concern across the U.S., the American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone, everyw...

Arizona Deploys AI Tool to Detect Medicaid Fraud

How many of those cut from SNAP are still eligible?

Key Points: Arizona’s food stamp enrollment dropped 47%, the largest decrease in the US New federal law imposed new limits on food stamp eligibility Arizona’s outdated IT system an...

Keeping Hawai‘i Healthy 2026 – HMSA

Founded by social workers in 1938, HMSA is Hawaii’s most experienced health plan, now covering nearly 1 million people with the addition of TRICARE, the uniformed services health c...