Humana reported a net income of $1.18 billion in the first quarter, down slightly from $1.24 billion during the same period last year, the company said April 29. The insurer posted $39.6 billion in total revenue, up from $32.1 billion…
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Besides former CFO Peter Kuipers, none of Clover’s top-paid executives took stock awards last year. Mr. Kuipers was the company’s highest earner, bringing in more than $2 million total. None of the executives received a bonus, nor took option awards,…
Health plans are under enormous financial and regulatory pressures. Managing these pressures with a fragmented, ineffective legacy infrastructure is not a formula for success. Health plans need a modern technology infrastructure to efficiently manage all back-office activities — claims, risk…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona recorded a net loss of $335.2 million in 2025, according to regulatory filings. The insurer posted a loss of $162.2 million in 2024 and $85.4 million in net income in 2023. BCBS Arizona reported…
Hospitals run by HCA Midwest Health — under Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare — will go out of network for Cigna commercial members May 1 unless an agreement is reached, the system said on its website. Members would lose access to…
The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems — and most organizations still aren’t capturing it. Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without…
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- Dawn Perryman, Associate Vice President, Perioperative Supply Chain Solutions, Vizient, Inc.
- Rene Gurdian Jr., MBA, Vice President, SCM Data Analytics and Transformation Ochsner Health
- Nattie Leger, MSN, RN, LSSBB, Vice President, Supply Chain Value & Clinical Performance Ochsner Health
North Carolina’s state health plan cancelled a previous request for proposal seeking third-party administrator services and will soon issue a new one, according to an April 15 news release from State Treasurer Bradford Briner. The release said the cancellation of…
An underrecognized, genetically inherited risk factor may be quietly accelerating cardiovascular disease in patients you’re already treating — and routine workups won’t catch it. Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), has an emerging and increasingly documented role in aortic stenosis and peripheral arterial…
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- Dr. Marc P. Bonaca MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, Executive Director of Colorado Prevention Center, Aurora, CO, USA Director of Vascular Research, Tenured Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO, USA Chair of the AHA PAD Collaborative Past Chair of the ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council
- Nishant Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Lead for the Duke Health System Remote Lipid Monitoring Program Clinical lead in the implementation of Inclisiran across Duke Health System DCRI for a study that evaluates the effectiveness of PCSK9 inhibitors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
