UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Florida, a subsidiary of Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group, disbursed more than $2.1 million in bonus payments to 263 physician practices across the state for improving quality measures at their facilities, Miami's Community Newspaper reports.
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Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following executive moves in the health insurance industry this past month. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Leaders from national health insurers including the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Cigna and Humana met with President Donald Trump Monday to discuss the climate of the payer industry, according to The Washington Post.
The idea of a state-run single-payer system is not dead in California, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Of all the changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one of the most profound was its effect on the business operations of health payers. What was once primarily a business-to-business (B2B) transaction between payers and employers suddenly…
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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, a subsidiary of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, named Jim Simpson president.
Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group announced quarterly payouts to their shareholders in the past few weeks.
CMS issued an insurance standards bulletin Thursday, which gives another extension to non-ACA-compliant health plans.
UnitedHealth Group's plan to lay off 119 employees at its Optum offices in Colorado struck a chord with Becker's Hospital Review payer issues readers this week.
Thomas McCarthy, CFO of Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, will retire this summer.