Author: Jakob Emerson

UnitedHealthcare offers the best Medicare Part D prescription drug plan in 2023, according to a ranking published Sept. 8 by Forbes Health.

Contract negotiations between health systems and insurers are a common occurrence across healthcare, but every so often talks disintegrate and disputes make their way into the public eye.

Former employees with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee say their religious rights were violated by the payer after they were terminated for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a class action lawsuit filed Sept. 7 in a Tennessee federal…

AHIP has named its general counsel, Julie Simon Miller, to serve as interim CEO, effective Oct. 2.

Aledade, a network of independent primary care providers, and Florida Blue's ACO has resulted in millions in shared savings for participating providers and improved health outcomes for 41,000 members in the program's first two years.

Highmark's value-based reimbursement program for primary care physicians, True Performance, has saved more than $3 billion in avoided cost savings in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia since its launch in 2017.

Alignment Healthcare has named Hyong (Ken) Kim, MD, as its chief medical officer, effective Sept. 25.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has named Angela Boykin as CEO of Healthy Blue, the company's Medicaid plan, effective Sept. 1.

Fortune has named Elevance Health the best large employer to work for in U.S. healthcare, according to its list of 40 top workplaces published in September.

Hawaii has the highest rate of private employers that offer health insurance to their employees, while Montana has the lowest, according to 2022 data published by KFF and sourced from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.