Author: Rylee Wilson

A group of 27 payers said they will update provider directories to include CMS' birthing friendly hospital designations, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said it will add health equity criteria to its maternal care ratings. 

AmeriHealth Caritas has named Neil Gomes as senior vice president and chief digital officer, and Ngoc Trang as senior vice president and chief actuary. 

There's a lot of payer price transparency data out there. So much that it would take 76,104 decades to count up all the data available in machine-readable files, according to transparency data startup Turquoise Health. 

Solis Health Plans, a Florida Medicare Advantage provider, named Francisco Hernandez, MD, as chief medical officer. 

Superior HealthPlan, a Centene subsidiary Medicaid-managed care plan in Texas, is adding a partnership with mobile home healthcare provider MedArrive. 

Centene has promoted Ken Fasola to president and Jim Murray to chief operating officer as current president and COO Brent Layton plans to retire. 

Two nonprofit payers, SCAN Group and CareOregon, plan to combine under the name HealthRight group. 

James Schroeder, CEO of Health Share of Oregon, has been appointed interim director of the state's Health Authority, Oregon Capital Chronicle reported Dec. 13. 

Oscar Health has gone through several transitions in recent months, with shake-ups in its executive suite and exits from two state markets. 

The drug-pricing provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act only apply directly to Medicare, but the new policies will have effects across the entire market, according to an analysis published Dec. 14 in Health Affairs. .