Friday brought a second blow to Gov. Terry Branstad's plan to move its $5 billion Medicaid program to managed care. A state official said the bid from WellCare of Iowa - one the four companies awarded ...

Wellcare has cheap Medicare Advantage and affordable, high-quality Medicare Part D plans. It also offers extra benefits like $0 prescription copays, Medicare Part B monthly giveback and a preloaded ...

Health care provider OptumHealth will be dropping all Fidelis/Wellcare and Cigna/Healthspring insurance plans in-network in ...

Wellcare, which is owned by Allwell, provides Medicare Advantage plans across the United States. Several private insurance companies administer the policies, and plan availability and price may vary ...

WellCare Health Plans revealed Tuesday that, effective September 1, it has completed its acquisition of Meridian Health Plan of Michigan, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, and MeridianRx, a pharmacy ...

The timing of potential divestitures from the merger of Aetna and CVS Health comes at a good time for a regional health insurer like Wellcare Health Plans. Wellcare has been mentioned as a potential ...

Health insurer Centene Corp. agreed to buy managed care provider WellCare Health Plans Inc. for more than $15 billion, expanding in the market for government insurance plans just as politicians in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. Wellcare Health Plans officially launched a new platform for multi-state ...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) announced today that the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida today approved a partial settlement and ...

In an effort to consolidate its foothold in New Jersey, WellCare Health Plans, Inc. ( WCG) agreed to acquire some of the assets of Healthfirst Health plan of New Jersey, Inc. (Healthfirst NJ) for an ...

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) today announced that its Classic prescription drug plan (PDP) has the lowest ...

WellCare Health Plans. Inc. announced Monday that it will pay about $194 million to settle a class-action securities law suit that arose from a 2007 fraud investigation. The Tampa-based insurer said ...