The following payers made headlines this past week, beginning with the most recent.
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Louisville, Ky.-based Humana's Bold Goal project improved health in its seven target communities.
Temkin Group, a consumer research firm, released its 2017 customer experience ratings, with health plans comprising more than half of the 10 lowest ranked U.S. companies.
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.
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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.