Author: Andrew Cass

The financial outlook for Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund improved slightly in 2021, but the threat of insolvency still looms, according to the "2022 Medicare Trustees Report" released June 2.  

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has added two executives to its senior leadership team. 

Medicaid expansion in North Carolina passed through the state Senate with near unanimous approval, but is expected to face a much tougher challenge in the House, the Carolina Journal reported June 2. 

Spending among traditional Medicare beneficiaries fell 5.8 percent in 2020, marking the first decrease in more than two decades, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report released June 1.  

Fortune recently reported that UnitedHealth Group gets the second most "return on leadership" among the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500 list. Here are the executives that make up that leadership team, according to UnitedHealth Group's website: 

Fourteen health insurers are requesting an average rate increase of 7.16 percent for Washington's individual health insurance market in 2023. 

An Ohio hospital is seeking more than $6 million in damages from Aetna, alleging the insurer is failing to pay patient bills, The Review reported June 2. 

Kindred At Home locations in 14 states began the transition to CenterWell Home Health June 1, as part of Humana's effort to rebrand its home health division. 

California is embarking on a five-year initiative to see if it can curb its Medicaid costs by having managed care insurers deliver social services, Kaiser Health News reported June 1. 

The Los Angeles Department of Mental Health is pushing to end a more than 50-year-old rule that excludes mental health facilities with more than 16 beds from receiving Medicaid payments, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported May 28.