Payer

Affinity Health Plan named Michael Murphy president and CEO.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Redirect Health unveiled a healthcare plan in Arizona's Maricopa County, where several insurers pulled their individual ACA exchange health plans from last year.

Birmingham-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama appointed Tim Vines executive vice president and COO, according to a Birmingham Business Journal report.

President Donald Trump is predicted to nominate Makan Delrahim, who previously lobbied for Indianapolis-based Anthem, to helm the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust branch, sources familiar with the issue told Reuters.

The American Hospital Association pressed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to affirm a district court's decision to halt Indianapolis-based Anthem's merger with Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna ahead of the insurers' appeal.

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate four insurers after a lawsuit alleged they submitted false Medicare claims to increase risk adjustment payments and kept overpayments from CMS, according to a Reuters report.

The costs associated with Aetna's unsuccessful bid for a merger with Humana struck a chord with Becker's Hospital Review readers this week.

Bruce Broussard, CEO of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana, said the insurer will not reenter health insurance exchanges created under the ACA even if the individual market changes for the better under Republicans' proposed healthcare bill, WDRB reports.

Here are 17 contract resolutions and dissolutions that occurred between payers and providers since Jan. 1, beginning with the most recent.

Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish requested changes to the GOP's ACA replacement plan in a conversation with the Trump administration Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.