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The CEO of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System criticized UnitedHealthcare's profits amid tense contract negotiations between the two organizations, according to local news station WBRC.

Anthem recorded total medical enrollment of 40.9 million as of June 30, according to a recent earnings release. 

UnitedHealth Group's health insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, recorded a total medical enrollment of 49.5 million as of June 30, according to recent financial documents.

Providing home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries could save the program $158 million in hospital readmission bills, according to a recent study from the Bipartisan Policy Center. 

A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' global budget payments slowed down spending growth while improving healthcare quality — achieving what BCBS of Massachusetts' CEO referred to as the…

San Francisco's health network — which includes Zuckerberg San Francisco General — finalized its first contract with a private health plan, according to Mission Local.

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering and Cigna signed a value-based agreement under which Memorial Sloan will share savings with Cigna if cost and quality targets are hit, according to Crain's New York Business.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City-based Integris Health inked a five-year agreement centered on value-based payments.

Bright Health, a health insurer based in Minneapolis, will expand to 13 new markets in 2020, growing its product offerings by 300 percent year over year.