Payer

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont said glitches in a new automated system have caused delays in claim payments, according to the VTDigger.

The following payers announced executive moves since mid-April, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review:

The Department of Justice said health insurers shouldn't receive $12.3 billion in federal payments they expected to receive from selling plans on the ACA's individual marketplaces, according to The National Law Journal.

About 30.4 million Americans were uninsured in 2018, roughly 1.1 million more than recorded the previous year, according to the CDC.

Hospitals were paid, on average, 241 percent of Medicare rates for services provided to privately insured patients in 2017, according to a RAND Corp. study done in collaboration with the Employers' Forum of Indiana.

UnitedHealth Group unveiled a bundled payment program for maternity services aimed at closing care gaps for moms and babies before and after delivery.

The CEO of Health Alliance Plan, a subsidiary of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, will retire June 30, according to a news release obtained by Becker's Hospital Review.

While the early years of the ACA exchanges featured volatile price and offering changes, by 2017, the individual market had begun to stabilize, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio debuted the city's new NYC Care Cards for its uninsured population on May 7.

An Oscar Health lawsuit alleging Florida Blue's broker policy is anticompetitive shouldn't be dismissed based on the McCarran-Ferguson Act, according to the Department of Justice.