Gov.-elect Tina Kotek will appoint a 20-year health care veteran to lead the Oregon Health Authority in early January, at least temporarily. In a statement on Tuesday, she said that James Schroeder, currently the CEO of the state’s largest Medicaid insurer, Health Share of Oregon, will serve as interim director.
A nonprofit and a nurses union lodged a complaint Monday to block the reorganization of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, charging state regulators failed to properly apply a series of tests meant to ensure the reorganization would benefit the insurer’s policyholders.
Toledo-area residents with Cigna health insurance are caught in the middle of a contract dispute between ProMedica and Cigna. Unless the dispute is resolved before Jan. 1, ProMedica will not accept Cigna insurance at its Toledo-area hospitals nor will Ohio-based physicians in the ProMedica Physicians Group, ProMedica Managed Care Vice President Donald Pirc said in a Dec. 5 letter to Cigna-covered patients.
The New York Stock Exchange has warned Bright Health Group that it may be delisted for its failure to meet the exchange's standards, with its average closing price falling below the $1 per share threshold.
Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate Hetty Rosenstein, the former New Jersey state director of the Communications Workers of America and a powerful voice for consumers, to serve on the Board of Directors of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.
Slamming Cigna as bad faith negotiators, Mercy Health warned Ohio patients Friday they could be out of in-network employer sponsored coverage if a deal with the insurance provider isn't reached before Jan. 1.