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Walmart Enters New Phase of Its Health Care Relationship with Consumers
Walmart’s strategy is simple: Find ways to help customers save money and live better. With its ever-expanding reach into health care, however, Walmart has entered a new phase by becoming a licensed health insurance broker in an effort to forge stronger bonds with millions of consumers.
Working to Ensure Commercial Health Insurers Do Their Part to Support Patient Care
Every year tens of millions of Americans dig deep into their pocketbooks to pay for health insurance plans that will cover both preventive and necessary care for individuals and families.
TAKE ACTION: Contact Your Representative Ahead of Jan. 22 House Hearings Focused on Commercial Health Insurers’ Role in Health Care Affordability
Please contact your representative prior to the Jan. 22 House hearings to share with them how some commercial insurer policies and practices delay, deny and disrupt care for patients.
White House releases health care plan
The White House released a health care plan Jan. 15 addressing drug prices, health insurance premiums and price transparency efforts.
Health Plan Accountability
Commercial health plan abuses must be addressed to ensure fair coverage for patients and providers. The AHA has worked to hold health plans accountable through letters, statements, white papers and member updates.
Health Plan Accountability Update: October 2025
The AHA May 29 submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services responding to a request for information regarding Medicare Advantage data, urging CMS to increase oversight of the program.
Health Plan Accountability Update - June 2025
HHS announces initiative with insurers to streamline prior authorizations.
Hospital Trendwatch Chart 1.14: Number and Percent Uninsured, 1990-2019, 2021, and 2022
See hospital trends in AHA Trendwatch Chartbook Chart 1.14: Number and Percent Uninsured, 1990-2019, 2021, and 2022.
AHA Urges Elevance Health to Rescind Anthem’s ‘Nonparticipating Provider Policy’
The AHA Dec. 17 urged Elevance Health, which is the parent company of the Anthem brand of health plans, to rescind Anthem’s nonparticipating provider policy that is set to go into effect Jan. 1, citing the harm it will inflict on patients.
AHA urges Elevance Health to rescind Anthem’s ‘Nonparticipating Provider Policy,’ citing harm to patient care access
The AHA Dec. 17 urged Elevance Health, which is the parent company of the Anthem brand of health plans, to rescind Anthem’s nonparticipating provider policy that is set to go into effect Jan. 1, citing the harm it will inflict on patients.