Three payer CEOs were named to Fortune's 2022 "50 Most Powerful Women" list released Oct. 4.
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Farmers Branch, Texas-based Southwestern Health Resources and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas have reached a multiyear contract.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is facing a revived antitrust lawsuit from the Anesthesia Associates of Ann Arbor over an alleged decadeslong scheme to control the state's anesthesia market.
With the Medicare annual enrollment period set to begin Oct. 15, payers nationwide are greatly expanding their Medicare Advantage plans to new states and hundreds of new counties in 2023.
Several healthcare payers have joined hurricane relief efforts, pledging philanthropic support to Florida communities recovering from Hurricane Ian.
Providers, nursing home representatives and advocates for patients say Medicare Advantage plans are sending enrollees home from skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers before they are healthy enough to leave, according to an Oct. 3 Kaiser Health News and Fortune report.
Moda Health, a Portland, Ore.-based insurer with 400,000 members, is offering plans in Idaho for 2023, the company said Oct. 3.
The largest healthcare merger of 2022 has been finalized between Optum and Change Healthcare, and CVS Health plans to acquire home health company Signify for $8 million. These are seven mergers and acquisitions reported by Becker's since Sept. 5:
The New York Medicaid Inspector General's Office recovered and saved a combined $3.2 billion in 2021, up from $3 billion in 2020, according to the office's 2021 report.
CVS Health is selling benefits administration platform Bswift. Francisco Partners, a tech investment firm, said Oct. 3 it will acquire the company.