CalOptima has named Kelly Bruno-Nelson as executive director of Medi-Cal and CalAIM, a new role focused on oversight of the agency's main health plan and the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal initiative.
Author: Jakob Emerson
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has hired Rochelle Jones and Michael Carriere II as vice presidents in its benefit operations division, according to The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
Centene Medicaid subsidiary Home State Health has named Jeff Johnston plan president and CEO, effective May 31.
Centene is terminating its leases for nearly 200,000 square feet of office space in St. Louis or surrounding suburbs, according to the St. Louis Business Journal.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania approved a class-action lawsuit against Aetna on May 25 for allegedly violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by forcing disability benefits recipients to return their personal injury payments.
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Maryland's all-payer hospital system can provide valuable insights for other states' healthcare systems, but moving other states to a similar system likely would be difficult, according to an article published May 31 by Troyen Brennan, MD, PhD, in Health Affairs.
Washington state requested a federal waiver May 13 that would allow noncitizens to purchase health coverage on its ACA marketplace, which one expert says may cost the state up to $1 billion every year, according to The Center Square Washington.
SCAN Group, the parent company of Medicare Advantage provider SCAN Health Plan, has acquired the Residentialist Group, a Laguna Hills, Calif.-based provider of in-home clinical services to older adults.
Medicaid Health Plans of America has named Molina Healthcare's director of government affairs, Michelle Tranquilli, as vice chair of the MHPA Government Relations Committee.
A proposed class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleges that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois unlawfully denied full coverage for fertility treatments to LBGTQ members.