Author: Andrew Cass

Digital health company Transcarent has tapped longtime Cigna executive Tom Richards to serve as its executive vice president of business development. 

Leaders of the North Carolina House and Senate have agreed on a Medicaid expansion plan, radio station WUNC reported March 2. 

UnitedHealth Group closed its acquisition of Lafayette, La.-based home health firm LHC Group on Feb. 22, nearly 11 months after the proposed acquisition was announced. Here is a timeline of the deal:

Dayton, Ohio-based managed care organization CareSource is partnering with Walmart to tackle racial health inequities. 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has struck a value-based agreement with tech-enabled rural health startup Homeward that aims to close care delivery gaps.

ConnectiCare has reached a new contract with Prospect Medical Holdings, avoiding a split that would have affected 6,500 beneficiaries, the Hartford Business Journal reported Feb. 27. 

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has named Daniel Zohorsky vice president of strategy and corporate development. 

From its plans to exit the Employer Group Commercial Medical Products Business to its philanthropic arm unveiling a new health equity strategy, here are eight updates about Humana that Becker's has reported since Feb. 8: 

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is delaying the implementation of its Medicaid managed care behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disabilities tailored plans until Oct. 1; they had been set to launch April 1.

While other large health insurers are not expected to join Humana's exit from the commercial market in the short term, the government market may be increasingly attractive, Bloomberg Law reported Feb. 27.