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Opioid use among Blue Shield of California members with noncancer pain fell 56 percent since 2014, the health insurer said March 18.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and its parent company, Stella, got a new senior vice president and chief analytics & information officer March 7: Shahid Alam.

Companies like Walmart, Intel and Boeing are creating or have launched value-based programs that aim to lower healthcare costs through direct-to-provider agreements, according to the Harvard Business Review.

Amazon customers can now use health savings accounts or flexible savings accounts to buy medical supplies and prescriptions, according to CNBC.

A chancery court judge in Delaware is set to decide whether Anthem or Cigna is owed money in a breakup battle that ensued in the two years after their failed merger, according to the CT Mirror.

Federal and Kentucky officials are throwing support behind a Medicaid proposal that would enact work requirements for beneficiaries, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

A judge tasked with signing off on a government settlement allowing CVS Health to acquire Aetna ordered a hearing on the matter, according to Reuters.

Here are three updates on executive compensation for health insurers Centene, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Humana:

Michael Neidorff, the CEO of Centene Corp., made 396 times what an average employee at the health insurer made in fiscal year 2018, according to a recent proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association asked a court to deny UPMC's request to join a lawsuit that argues 36 BCBS insurers unlawfully conspired to divide markets and avoid competition with one another, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.