Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's parent company, Stella, named two leaders to its health IT and analytics operations.
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Enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program and child-focused Medicaid programs declined almost 600,000 in the first 11 months of 2018, according to an analysis from Stateline, part of Pew Charitable Trusts.
Older adults in rural areas particularly face affordability challenges when purchasing policies off the ACA marketplace, according to a brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Humana CEO Bruce Broussard made 231 times what an average employee at the health insurer did in 2018, according to a recent proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Blue Cross Blue Shield companies weighed increasing a breakup fee for a proposed Anthem-Cigna deal to as high as $10 billion, according to Law360.
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Some health plans like Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's "My Choice" policies and Minnesota startup Bind Benefits are eliminating annual deductibles and having members negotiate their own claims in an effort to curb medical spending, according to NPR.
Anthem doesn't plan to acquire a large amount of physicians like rival health insurer UnitedHealth Group, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.
In October 2017, Anthem unveiled plans to establish an in-house pharmacy benefits manager called IngenioRx. Now, amid increasing public scrutiny of PBMs, executives at the Indianapolis-based insurer are promising a much more consumer-friendly, transparent experience, according to Bloomberg.
President Donald Trump's administration is considering requiring hospitals and providers to publish the prices they negotiate with payers for patients to see, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit filed against Cigna that accuses the health insurer of committing securities fraud, according to the New York Law Journal.