President Donald Trump said he intends to sign an executive order permitting health insurers to sell policies across state lines, Politico reports.
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Corporations should bypass health insurers and negotiate contracts directly with hospitals, according to two University of California, Berkeley professors.
Lexington-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kentucky named Kennan Wethington president effective Oct. 16, according to The Lane Report.
On Sept. 27, health insurers are required to let HHS know whether they will sell coverage on the 2018 ACA exchanges.
Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota plans to decrease reimbursement for a standard hour-long therapy session by roughly 18 percent Jan. 1, according to a Star Tribune report.
On a 100-point scale, health system executives ranked their trust in health plans at 52, according to a ReviveHealth survey.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana rolled out a voluntary early retirement program for employees age 55 or older, Louisville Business First reports.
Some healthcare analysts say Anthem's new imagining policy for hospital-based MRI and CT scans counters quality improvement efforts, Kaiser Health News reports.
At least 50 percent of Americans said $100 or less is the maximum they could spend on health insurance premiums each month, according to a HealthPocket poll.
Chet Burrell, president and CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore, will retire in mid-2018.