Payer

The generosity of employer-sponsored health plans has remained relatively stagnant since major coverage provisions of the ACA were implemented in 2014, researchers from the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association found.

Through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's Blue Premier alternative payment model, UNC Health Alliance, a provider network under UNC Health, saved patients $40 million in 2020. 

Molina Healthcare's third quarter earnings report featured broad revenue growth shadowed by a 22 percent dip in net income, according to the Oct. 27 report. 

Officials in Butler County, Ohio, selected Humana for a $62.2 million contract to cover public employees, ousting UnitedHealthcare as the county's former insurer. 

AmeriHealth Caritas appointed Bob Kolodgy as CFO and executive vice president, the company announced Oct. 28. 

Based on patient and provider market research, hospitals can make smarter decisions about the patient payment process that will improve both customer satisfaction and the revenue cycle.

Humana is partnering with New Orleans-based Ochsner Health to support the health system's mobile health clinic initiative. 

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is working with Buffalo (N.Y.) City Mission on addressing hospital readmission rates among homeless individuals.

Nearly a year after UnitedHealthcare and New York City-based Montefiore Health System's contract ended, they have once again penned an agreement to bring Montefiore's hospitals back into the insurer's network, according to an Oct. 28 news release shared with Becker's.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota named Dana Erickson its permanent president and CEO, effective Nov. 1.