Author: Staff

Six of the nation's 13 largest payers currently offer direct coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests, according to a Jan. 20 Kaiser Family Foundation study. 

The prices commercial insurers pay to providers continues to grow higher than the price set by Medicare's fee for service program, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. 

Andrew Dreyfus, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, will resign at the end of 2022 after 12 years at the helm. 

Blue Shield of California is offering members enrolled in Wellvolution, its behavioral health program, access to personalized mental healthcare from Ginger. 

HHS' reaffirmation of the ACA's requirement that payers cover FDA-approved contraceptives is the first of many necessary steps to ensure insurers stop skirting around coverage requirements, Martha Nolan, senior policy advisor at nonprofit HealthyWomen, wrote in a Jan. 13 op-ed…

More than 120 organizations — including payers, businesses and advocacy groups — have signed on to a coalition that opposes proposals that would enact and fund a single-payer healthcare system in California. 

Annie Lee is slated to join Colorado Access, the state's largest Medicaid plan, as its president and CEO on Feb. 14, according to a news release shared with Becker's. 

Gail Boudreaux, Anthem CEO and president, was awarded the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest individual honor: the Theodore Roosevelt Award. 

John Rowe, MD, former president and chair at Aetna, joined family caregiver telehealth startup eFamilyCare as a director and investor. 

Humana subsidiary CenterWell Senior Primary Care, the largest senior-oriented primary care provider in the nation, is expanding its reach to 12 states.