Author: Andrew Cass

TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions has tapped former UnitedHealthcare Chief Growth Officer Shawn Mobley to serve as its chief commercial officer. 

A group of physicians at Holyoke (Mass.) Medical Center is suing insurer Health New England over $2.5 million in reimbursements the company allegedly failed to pay for emergency room treatments, MassLive reported Oct. 4. 

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney is urging state lawmakers to enact more regulations to prevent another contract dispute like the one currently playing out between the state's largest insurer and hospital, the Daily Journal reported Oct. 5.

Cigna CEO David Cordani said the company sees "tremendous opportunities for growth around benefits" in the Middle East after it sold off some of its businesses in the Asia Pacific last year, Bloomberg reported Oct. 5. 

Cigna commercial customers in New York and New Jersey now have access to DocGo's mobile health services. 

Aetna Health of California beat a lab's proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the payer evaded its obligations to fully cover COVID-19 diagnostic testing, but the lab will have another chance to bring claims under federal benefits and racketeering laws, Bloomberg…

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico has tapped Marlene Baca as its vice president of sales, the Albuquerque Journal reported Oct. 3. 

Three payer CEOs were named to Fortune's 2022 "50 Most Powerful Women" list released Oct. 4. 

Farmers Branch, Texas-based Southwestern Health Resources and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas have reached a multiyear contract. 

The New York Medicaid Inspector General's Office recovered and saved a combined $3.2 billion in 2021, up from $3 billion in 2020, according to the office's 2021 report.