Leadership
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s Kim Keck reflects on her first year as CEO
Keck discusses her first year as CEO of BCBSA, advice for other women working to become a CEO, becoming a part of the Health Evolution Equity Pledge and working with Blue plans to advance health at the community level.
Affordability
Pricing transparency regulation got off to a rocky start in 2021. Will 2022 be any better?
The Hospital Pricing Transparency rule went into effect at the beginning of 2021 and got off to a rocky start. Will 2022 be any better?
Leadership
Health Execs on the Move: Kusserow leaving Amedisys after turning the company around
In this volume of Health Execs on the Move, Paul Kusserow announced his retirement as the CEO of home health, hospice and personal care company Amedisys. Under his leadership, Amedisys improved Home Health Quality of Patient Care Star score from 3.5 stars to 4.33 stars and its market cap from $900 million to over $5.3 billion.
Leadership
Health Evolution CEO Reading List
Chief executives of providers, payers and life sciences organizations can look to this frequently updated list for articles and resources about health care and leadership.
Medical Breakthroughs
Why mRNA vaccines present renewed optimism for cancer treatment
Amid the harsh reality that COVID has brought to cancer patients, there is hope coming within the oncology world through the advances in mRNA vaccines and other breakthrough therapies.
M&A
2021 saw a big rebound for M&A activity in health care
For nearly every sector of the health care world, M&A activity increased from 2020 to 2021 in both deal volume and value. Here are some of the major deals from Q4 across the payer, provider, life sciences and tech worlds.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Enlace Health’s Bill Nordmark
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Nordmark discusses the inspiration that drives Enlace Health, the hardest challenges he has overcome, advice for other innovator CEOs and more.
Leadership
What to expect at the upcoming Health Evolution Summit 2022
Health Evolution SVP Rob Lazerow discusses what will be different at this year’s Summit, some of the CEO-centric themes that will be addressed and the points of inspiration CEOs will gain in Laguna.
Policy
Becerra vs. Empire Health Foundation could forever change HHS’ authority
In making a ruling on Medicare payments to safety-net hospitals, the Supreme Court could reduce how much influence agencies such as HHS have in interpreting legislation.
Consumerism
CareFirst exec on the booming Medicare Advantage market
David J. Corkum, Chief Growth Officer of CareFirst, explains why the timing was right for the mid-Atlantic-based health plan to enter the group Medicare Advantage market.
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SCAN Group and Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain on the art of the possible
In this spotlight on Forum Fellows, Jain discusses the organization’s work to transform its culture, creating a highly inclusive workplace and more.
"I want us to be an organization that inspires and shows people the art of the possible, and that really has to come from cultural transformation, internally for the organization. And some of the things you referenced, our homeless medical group, our focus on actually closing health disparities—not just talking about them—are ways in which we hope to do that."
Sachin Jain, MD, SCAN Group and Health Plan
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