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Health insurers should direct premium dollars to providers who are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic now, two academics wrote in an op-ed for the Harvard Business Review.

Fitch Ratings revised its stable outlook for the U.S. health insurance industry to negative due to adverse effects from the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Michael Neidorff, the CEO of Centene Corp., took home more than $26 million for the second year in a row, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

Humana priced a public offering of $1.1 billion in senior notes, the insurer said March 23.  

Here are six notes on how COVID-19 is affecting health insurers and how they're responding:

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is urging health insurers who employ physicians and nurses to release them from their duties so they can help treat COVID-19 patients, according to Bloomberg. 

As explained by VisitPay's Will Reilly, VisitPay's 2020 Annual Report, reveals through direct patient research, significant insights into what constitutes a more compassionate financial experience that benefits both patients and providers.  

UnitedHealth Group changed its policies to promote more remote work after the insurer had asked tens of thousands of its employees to continue coming on-site amid the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Here are six notes on how COVID-19 is affecting health insurers and how they're responding:

Highmark Health said it's seeing members rejoin the company after the insurer and rival UPMC ended a long contract feud last year, according to Trib Live.