Leadership

Payer executives shifted their focus to population health and implemented new strategies in 2024. 

Weight loss management is a common component of many corporate wellness programs. Health plans often offer such programs as a way to encourage plan members to lead healthier lives, while simultaneously helping reduce outlays for costly health services.

In recent years, healthcare executives and providers have faced growing expectations to address health inequities that affect diverse populations across the country. But what does health equity truly mean in practice? 

What do you do when there’s an oligopoly controlling an industry, inhibiting price competition and consumer choice? You break it up. The three dominant pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and United’s OptumRx are drug-pricing middlemen, increasing…

Cigna directly confirmed on Nov. 11 that it is not pursuing a merger with Humana and said it "continues to deliver shareholder value through focused execution against stated operational and financial targets, and via disciplined capital deployment including dividends and…

CVS Health named Steve Nelson as president of Aetna, effective Nov. 6. 

Aetna's SimplePay plan cut healthcare costs for employers while encouraging members to seek out higher quality care. 

Payer executives are looking forward to investing in AI, improving equity and new care models in 2025. 

Long Beach, Calif.-based SCAN Health Plan is trying to maintain calm amid a tumultuous Medicare open enrollment.  

Payers have the opportunity to make strides on equity and care outcomes in the next year.