CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has promoted its COO, Brian D. Pieninck, to president and CEO, effective July 1.
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Molina Healthcare has named Thomas L. Tran CFO and treasurer, effective June 4. He succeeds Joseph W. White, who is retiring after 15 years with Molina.
Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange established under the ACA, will require participating payers to kick hospitals who don't reach certain safety and quality measures out of their network, WBUR news reports.
Anthem will invest $20 million in renovations at the company's Indianapolis headquarters in a commitment to its home base.
The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict there will be 3 million fewer Americans with health insurance in 2019 when the ACA's individual mandate is eliminated.
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Insurance giant Anthem plans to acquire Aspire Health, a palliative care provider based in Nashville, Tenn.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System has sold Health Tradition Health Plan, an HMO plan, to WEA Insurance Corp., which is owned by WEA Trust.
Health insurers Kaiser Permanente and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina are the latest members of the Health Care Transformation Task Force.
President Trump’s recent speech about lowering drug price has been both lauded as long-overdue and derided as an overly-broad policy blueprint that lacks real action steps.
During President Donald Trump's first year in office, the uninsured rate for Americans ages 18-64 rose slightly to 12.8 percent, the same rate as 2015, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control.