Author: Jakob Emerson

Bloomington, Minn.-based Bright Health Group has named Michael Carson as CEO of Bright HealthCare and Jeff Cook as CEO of the value-based line NeueHealth. The two will both start in June and report to CEO Mike Mikan.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has launched the Health Equity Business Accelerator, a program that provides financial, strategic and mentorship support to founders of color focused on creating equitable healthcare services and solutions. 

America's Health Insurance Plans launched Healthier People through Healthier Markets on May 17, a new policy guide with proposed solutions aimed at improving healthcare affordability and access. 

Drug deaths among seniors have doubled over the last decade, but a record number received flu vaccines in 2020, according to the United Health Foundation's 10th annual "America's Health Rankings Senior Report."

Some health plans may soon be federally required to cover fertility treatments for members, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, according to Bloomberg Law.

Rhode Island is starting over with its $7 billion Medicaid contract bidding process after a series of snafus excluded some of the state's largest payers, according to WPRI.  

Sen. Bernie Sanders and 14 other senators introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2022 on May 12 to create a federally-administered single-payer healthcare system.

Castlight Health analyzed more than 160 million commercial medical claims nationwide to reveal insights about healthcare utilization patterns from 2018 to 2021. 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico has named Latha Raja Shankar, MD, as chief medical officer, the Albuquerque Journal reported May 14.

Former NFL athletes Chadwick Slaughter and Fabian Washington have pleaded guilty for their part in a scheme to defraud the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.