Author: Andrew Cass

UnitedHealth's former CEO David Wichmann earned $142.2 million in 2021, primarily through previously issued equity awards, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. 

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated May 10 that 5.3 million to 14.2 million people could lose Medicaid coverage at the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

New York lawmakers are considering a 9.3 percent tax on insurance companies that move their profits out of state, Spectrum News 1 reported May 9. 

Mississippi's largest provider and payer have agreed on a mediator to oversee their contract dispute, Mississippi Today reported May 9. 

Centene's Missouri subsidiary Home State Health will be the sole provider of a specialty plan under the state's Medicaid program that serves about 40,000 foster children and children receiving adoption subsidy assistance.

In less than a decade, healthcare-sharing ministries have seen their membership grow by more than a million people, in part due to an exemption provided in the ACA.   

Sentara Health Plans will operate community care centers in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina with the aim of improving care for the uninsured and Medicaid recipients in underresourced communities. 

Payers Humana, Cigna and Centene are among the top 50 companies for diversity in 2022, according to DiversityInc. 

The U.S. had a 9.2 percent uninsured rate last year, a decrease from 9.7 percent in 2020, according to a May 5 report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. 

A contract dispute between Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health and Hospitals and UnitedHealthcare could leave 20,000 patients out-of-network if an agreement is not reached before June 1, according to a May 5 North Carolina Public Radio report.