Florida lawmakers have proposed adding Medicaid work requirements even though the state has not expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income adults. KFF Health News says Florida is not required to adopt the federal expansion-adult work rules, but lawmakers want them for some enrollees. KFF's tracker on the 2025 reconciliation law lists open implementation questions, including verification methods, exemptions, and how SNAP data might be leveraged. The operational burden can increase churn and, as KFF Health News notes, could leave many adults uninsured, pushing more uncompensated-care risk onto providers.

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Health, a set of healthcare AI agents embedded in its contact-center platform, Amazon Connect. AWS says the tool can schedule appointments and help clinicians by summarizing medical histories, documenting care, and generating diagnosis and billing codes. That feature set puts a cloud vendor directly in the revenue-cycle workflow, not just the phone tree. For payers, faster documentation and code generation can shift unit costs upward if coding intensity rises, even as provider admin expense falls.

BCBS Michigan said in February it will cut reimbursement by 50% for certain nonpreventive E/M services billed with modifier 25 on the same day as procedures. The plan clarified the policy applies when the procedure code has a 0- or 10-day global period, after removing 90-day globals as an error. This is a straight allowed-amount haircut on a common billing pattern. Practices eat the margin hit unless they can re-code, re-sequence, or shift visits off procedure days.

Eli Lilly officially launched Employer Connect, a direct-to-employer platform for its obesity drugs, after teasing the rollout late last year. Becker's reported the platform lets employers offer Zepbound at a $449-per-month list price and bypass traditional pharmacy benefits. Employers are paired with more than 15 independent program administrators, including Calibrate, Teladoc Health, GoodRx, and Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs. For finance teams, it is a reminder that GLP-1 unit cost and prior-auth rules can move outside PBM contracts, rewriting rebate and trend assumptions.