Seven payers were named June 16 in Points of Light's 10th annual "Civic 50 honorees," a national standard for corporate citizenship and how companies use their time, skills and resources to drive social impact in their communities and company.
Author: Jakob Emerson
The Commonwealth Fund released its "2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance" on June 16 to examine how well each state's healthcare system performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis included health insurance coverage rates in each state in 2020.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is partnering with San Francisco-based Castlight Health to launch a new health, wellness and care navigation solution for commercial health plan members, beginning Jan. 1.
Healthcare interoperability startup Opala has named Ken Chandler as CEO, effective July 1. Mr. Chandler was previously senior vice president of national accounts at Premera Blue Cross.
With Anthem rebranding at the end of June to Elevance Health, the payer is launching two new subsidiaries: Carelon and Wellpoint.
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Collinsville, Conn.-based Penstock Group has named Robert Haskey, MD, as chief medical officer
The California Department of Insurance warned payers June 1 that arbitrarily refusing to cover treatment and limiting coverage for sexually transmitted infection screening to one per year is illegal.
Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based payer Choice Health recently shared that sensitive member health information was obtained by an unauthorized individual, HIPAA Journal reported June 15.
A "Medicare-for-All" healthcare system would have saved hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published June 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
J.D. Power published the results of its "2022 U.S. Vision Plan Satisfaction Study" on June 14 and found Aetna Vision has the most-satisfied members of any vision plan in the nation.