Author: Jakob Emerson

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has named David Merritt senior vice president of policy and advocacy, effective Oct. 24.

Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield has added two clinical quality executives to its leadership team, Arkansas Business reported Sept. 19.

From Medicare Advantage providers denying access to care unnecessarily to the nation's organ transplant network being vulnerable to a cyberattack, these are 10 recent findings from HHS' Office of the Inspector General:

Humana executives told investors Sept. 15 it's looking to match or exceed other payers that have outpaced it in Medicare Advantage growth over the last year, WDRB reported.

BlueCross BlueShield of Montana has been awarded a three-year contract to administer the state's employees health plan for 28,000 people.

Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured residents in the country and Massachusetts has the lowest, according to American Community Survey data released Sept. 15 by the Census Bureau.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named the top-performing health plans of 2022 based on factors that include care quality, patient satisfaction and efforts to keep improving.

Nevada has the fastest growing rate of healthcare spending and California spends the most on healthcare overall, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Forge Health, a value-based behavioral health provider, has named Tim Wentworth chair of its board.

The Justice Department charged nine people in southern California Sept. 14 for their involvement in a prostitution ring that billed a union's health plan for sex acts under the guise of chiropractic services and physical therapy.