1. Mayo adds 5 new centers of excellence under Optum program
Optum designated several specialties and service lines at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic as Centers of Excellence, a bundled program for UnitedHealthcare customers and employers. While Mayo has participated in Optum’s CEO program for transplants for 11 years, the new agreement will allow the system’s locations in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota to participate as CEOs for cancer, bariatric surgery and heart failure.
2. 10 things to know about Oscar Health Insurance: Will it be the Uber of health plans?
Oscar Health Insurance, a young New York-based start-up valued at $1.5 billion, is lauded as a disrupter among its more traditional contemporaries. With its quirky branding and emphasis on simplicity, it has been coined the “hipster” health insurance company poised to “make health insurance suck less.”
3. ACA enrollees less satisfied with insurance plans, poll finds
Affordable Care Act enrollees are not as satisfied with their insurance plans as consumers with other types of coverage, according to The Hill. The DeloitteCenter for Health Solutions analyzed the results of its recent poll.
4. How payers and providers communicate: Q&A with NaviNet CEO Frank Ingari
Frank Ingari is president and CEO of health IT company NaviNet, which serves as an interactive healthcare network for providers and payers. He weighed in on communication between providers and payers and discussed trends with the payer-provider relationship.
5. 2 CEOs who are shaking up healthcare: 10 things to know
Few stories in the healthcare industry have gotten as much national attention as news that four of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. are merging into two. Here are 10 things to know about Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini and Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish.
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Cigna revenue climbs to $9.5B as membership grows
