Payer

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.

Centene Corp. and WellCare Health Plans received approval from 17 states to combine operations, the health insurers said Sept. 19.

Health insurance for union workers striking against General Motors abruptly ended the week of Sept. 16, according to local news station ABC News.

One of Humana's longtime CEOs and co-founder David Jones died Sept. 18 at age 88, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.