Leadership

Healthcare affordability took center stage in some governors’ 2026 “State of the State” addresses. The National Governors Association compiled excerpts from across the country that focused on healthcare, ranging from technology use to the Rural Health Transformation Program to insurance…

The ground is shifting beneath the healthcare industry, and payers know it. With federal Medicaid funding under scrutiny, enhanced ACA subsidies expired, value-based care models continuing to evolve, and state legislatures moving at their own pace on everything from AI…

Healthcare communications operate in a highly regulated environment where accuracy, timing and scale are critical. These programs support millions of Americans, and the information delivered directly impacts coverage, benefits, access to care and public health response. For more than four…

HHS and CMS have launched a healthcare advisory committee to help strengthen and modernize U.S. healthcare. The committee, which comprises 18 members, will advise both HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, on how to…

As value-based care continues to reshape the health insurance landscape, health plans face mounting pressure to evolve by continuing to become a true partner in care delivery. The shift demands more than operational adjustment — it requires a fundamental rethinking…

Massachusetts health plans and hospitals are collaborating on what they are referring to as a “first-of-its-kind” organization, called the Massachusetts Payer-Provider Partnership (MP3), to address healthcare affordability and access. A partnership spokesperson told Becker’s on March 24 the organization aims…

Dana Erickson, BSN, RN, president and CEO of Eagan, Minn.-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, has resigned from the board of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health as the system moves forward with its proposed acquisition of Minneapolis-based Allina Health,…

Optum Health is about four months into a leadership transition, with its new CEO Krista Nelson laying out her vision for what the care delivery giant looks like after years of rapid expansion that company leadership has acknowledged steered the…

I feel compelled to raise the alarm about the worsening state of maternal health in our country – particularly here in Florida, where I trained as a physician, raised my family, and built my career. This issue is deeply personal for…

Organizations working toward payer-provider alignment do not necessarily have to lead with the financial angle, Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health’s COO, Matt Hocks, said. Mr. Hocks recently assumed responsibility for Sanford and Security Health Plans. In a recent interview with…