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Manny Lopes, CEO of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, is leaving his role to join Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

The coronavirus pandemic created a lag in regular healthcare for members, and while the world is recovering, the top priority for Talya Schwartz, PhD, CEO of MetroPlus Health Plan in New York City, is to plug members back into care.

A Missouri state judge denied the state's request for two months of leeway in implementing a court-upheld Medicaid expansion, requiring immediate rollout. 

New research claims that while the ACA made strides in reducing national uninsured rates, its application was far from being even keel. 

Alignment Healthcare, a health insurance startup selling Medicare Advantage plans, will double its geographic footprint in 2022.

Medical data analytics company Ontrak has been handed a lawsuit by investors after it allegedly concealed for months that its contract with Aetna was likely to be terminated.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan purchased an unnamed Royal Oak, Mich.-based management support organization, bringing opportunities for network physicians to access support tools.

Anthem and Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health are still at odds over a contract that fizzled out June 1. 

Following successes during its first year-and-a-half, Regence BlueShield is expanding its Episodes of Care program, which now includes the Washington State Health Care Authority as a customer. 

UnitedHealthcare played a pivotal role in Yale's renowned study on surprise billing, which played a crucial role in industrywide and federal reform as it pointed to both the prevalence of surprise billing and the fiscal burden on patients.