Author: Rylee Wilson

Oscar Health interim CFO Siddhartha Sankaran was the company's highest-paid employee in 2022, according to regulatory filings published April 27. 

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has listed an 11-acre campus in Chattanooga for sale, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported April 28. 

The average premium cost for Medicare Advantage plans sold on eHealth increased from $6 a month in 2022 to $9 in 2023, according to the online insurance marketplace's annual "Medicare Index Report." 

Elevance Health posted $2 billion in profit in the first quarter of 2023, according to its earnings report published April 19. 

Federal contractors are required to prove their efforts to represent women and people of color in recruitment and advancement — but new public data shows many are falling behind, especially among leadership and management positions, USA Today and Reveal reported…

Payers have been upping investments in health equity, adding health equity executives to C-suites and adding equity requirements to contracts with providers. 

Bright Health Group is trying to sell its California Medicare Advantage business, a move that would effectively end all of the company's insurance business. 

Medicare could have saved $128 million in duplicate claims payments with a better data-sharing agreement with the Veterans Health Administration, according to an audit from HHS' Office of Inspector General. 

Most private payers do not cover new drugs meant to treat obesity, but Medicaid programs in a few states do, Bloomberg reported April 27. 

Legislation that would allow Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to reorganize, adding a nonprofit parent holding company, is moving ahead in the state's House of Representatives.