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Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health announced it is starting its own health insurance company, Central Mass Health. 

Several commercial health insurers recorded all-time high share prices on May 10, according to historical share price data.

Centene has named Drew Asher executive vice president and CFO, effective May 7.

Cigna CEO David Cordani said preventive care procedures including mammograms, colonoscopies, childhood vaccinations and cervical cancer screenings among its members are back to levels not seen since before the COVID-19 shutdowns of early 2020.

Though 2020 was a reportedly stressful year, treatment rates for mental health problems did not increase, according to a published Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield report called "State of the Nation's Mental Health."

Seven for-profit health insurers saw their revenues and profits increase during the first quarter of the 2021 fiscal year.

Medicaid enrollment increased by 5 million people between March and September of 2020, a study published in JAMA Network Open shows.

Healthcare providers and insurers must make changes to their processes and technology systems to comply with the No Surprises Act by Jan. 1, 2022 — a feat 95 percent of insurers are worried about achieving.

The Concord, Calif.-based Sutter Health and Aetna joint health plan is offering three new clinical programs for members, according to a news release shared with Becker's.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee is sending refunds worth an average of $250 to 100,000 state residents who purchased individual plans from the ACA's health insurance marketplace in 2018. This is the second time in eight months the…