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From Medical Mutual naming Cleveland Clinic's CFO as its new CEO to C-suite shakeups at several BCBS companies, these are 40 payer executive moves in the month of May:
CalOptima has named Kelly Bruno-Nelson as executive director of Medi-Cal and CalAIM, a new role focused on oversight of the agency's main health plan and the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal initiative.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has hired Rochelle Jones and Michael Carriere II as vice presidents in its benefit operations division, according to The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
Centene Medicaid subsidiary Home State Health has named Jeff Johnston plan president and CEO, effective May 31.
Medicaid expansion under the ACA was associated with an increase in two-year overall survival rates among newly diagnosed cancer patients, according to a recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Centene is terminating its leases for nearly 200,000 square feet of office space in St. Louis or surrounding suburbs, according to the St. Louis Business Journal.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania approved a class-action lawsuit against Aetna on May 25 for allegedly violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by forcing disability benefits recipients to return their personal injury payments.
Maryland's all-payer hospital system can provide valuable insights for other states' healthcare systems, but moving other states to a similar system likely would be difficult, according to an article published May 31 by Troyen Brennan, MD, PhD, in Health Affairs.
The University of Vermont Health Network and UnitedHealthcare reached an agreement on a new contract, VTDigger reported May 27.