Author: Staff

After a decade of serving as president of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and Health Plan of the Northwest, Andrew McCulloch is retiring next month.

The Senate GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act draft, released June 22, could spark mixed credit implications for health insurers, according to Fitch Ratings.

David Cordani, CEO of Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, sold 153,168 company stocks June 19 for a total of $26.1 million, according to a Nasdaq report.

The Kellogg School of Management at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University will hold a panel about two recently blocked insurance mega-mergers: Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana.

Clermont, Fla.-based Primary Partners, a network of central Florida primary care and specialty physicians, and Jacksonville-based Florida Blue will implement an accountable provider program targeted at improving care coordination.

Insurers participating on the ACA exchanges lost about 7 percent to 9 percent of premiums in 2016, down slightly from 10.1 percent of premiums a year prior, according to a McKinsey & Company analysis.

The Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C., policy and research think tank, compared what net premiums — after federal tax credits — would be under the House-approved American Health Care Act and the ACA in 2020.

The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.

Raleigh, N.C.-based Community Care Physician Network and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna collaborated for rural healthcare initiatives in North Carolina for Medicare Advantage policyholders. 

The 36 independent, locally-operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association companies spent more than $250 million on community health initiatives last year, according to the association's 2016 The Health of America Community Investment report.