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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has added two executives to its senior leadership team. 

Medicaid expansion in North Carolina passed through the state Senate with near unanimous approval, but is expected to face a much tougher challenge in the House, the Carolina Journal reported June 2. 

Spending among traditional Medicare beneficiaries fell 5.8 percent in 2020, marking the first decrease in more than two decades, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report released June 1.  

Fortune recently reported that UnitedHealth Group gets the second most "return on leadership" among the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500 list. Here are the executives that make up that leadership team, according to UnitedHealth Group's website: 

From state-level expansions of the federal No Surprises Act to insulin copay caps, these recently passed state bills or laws will have an impact on payers:

Hospital readmission rates and Medicare payments to nursing facilities dropped among Black patients who received a hip or knee replacement surgery after the introduction of Medicare's Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, according to a new study from the Icahn…

Fourteen health insurers are requesting an average rate increase of 7.16 percent for Washington's individual health insurance market in 2023. 

Cigna updated its Loneliness Index on May 26 to include more data around which demographics are facing feelings of loneliness more than others among the 58 percent of all U.S. adults who report being lonely.

An Ohio hospital is seeking more than $6 million in damages from Aetna, alleging the insurer is failing to pay patient bills, The Review reported June 2. 

Payers are expecting to issue a total of about $1 billion in medical loss ratio rebates across all commercial markets in 2022, according to a study published June 1 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.