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Houston Methodist facilities and physicians are moving back into UnitedHealthcare's network after roughly six months of a negotiation impasse, according to the Houston Chronicle. 

Humana will collaborate with Healthmap Solutions, a population health management company that has expertise in kidney health, to provide some of its members with kidney disease care coordination services. 

Fourteen million members in Cigna's employer-sponsored health plans can now talk and text with on-demand licensed therapists through a partnership with online and mobile therapy company Talkspace. 

Some of the nation's largest commercial payers have seen their stocks fall slightly this year, while others have seen gains despite new pressures presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

NovuHealth named Steve Wigginton, a former executive with Sutter Health | Aetna, as CEO of the consumer engagement company.

Centene Corp. named an inaugural group of medical and community leaders to its health disparities task force, the insurer said May 18.

Several near-term and long-term challenges will be coming to state Medicaid programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, from enrollment growth to financial hardships.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans were among the highest-ranked health plans in the most regions for consumer insight firm J.D. Power's annual member satisfaction survey.

The following payer executives changed their positions in May.

A court ordered Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas to pay more than $108 million in damages and attorney fees to two closed rural Texas hospitals.