Payer

The National Committee for Quality Assurance ranked Jai Medical Systems Managed Care Organization and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States its top two highest-performing Medicaid health plans for 2019-20.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance ranked Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Medical Associates Health Plan among its highest-performing Medicare health plans for 2019-20.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance ranked Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States and Tufts Benefit Administrators among its highest-performing commercial health plans for 2019-20.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina should name an interim CEO until criminal charges against its current chief are resolved, the state's insurance commissioner said Sept. 20, according to local news station WRAL.

Humana CEO Bruce Broussard told CNBC that increasing competition and innovation among drugmakers is the best way to cut drug costs.

Here are five recent articles posted by Becker's Hospital Review that concern payer-provider relationships:  

IBM Watson Health gathered multiple perspectives from healthcare leaders representing providers, payers and government agencies on the opioid crisis. 

Health insurance CEO and former CMS administrator Patrick Conway, MD, was charged with driving while impaired and misdemeanor child abuse after a car accident in June, according to The Charlotte Observer. 

Alabama had the least competitive commercial health insurance market in 2018, according to a study published by the American Medical Association.

In 2018, 75 percent of commercial health insurance markets were highly concentrated, according to a study published by the American Medical Association.