In August 2025, Blue Shield of California named Mike Stuart as its CEO. Now, a year later, he's reflecting on months of work toward addressing affordability, member access and the patient journey.
The tool is free to use, takes no payments from payers or commissions and does not sell or share personal information. It surfaces yearly cost estimates and shows nearby plans that keep a patient's doctors in-network.
Healthcare students can use the Clasp Marketplace to compare jobs by what each one pays toward their student loans, plus salaries. In order to post a job, an employer must commit money toward a student’s debt.
The clinic will combine Millie’s midwifery care model with El Camino’s labor and delivery services and broader specialist network. The goal is to offer an integrated pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience.
The Elevance Health Foundation has launched a new prize program aimed at supporting solutions aimed at improving patient safety, with the first crop of winners targeting challenges like health literacy, fall prevention and medication errors.
The company built an AI-powered real-time clinical quality platform to better manage healthcare utilization by influencing care decisions rather than requiring clinicians to get permission for them.
For a third consecutive quarter, the hospital industry has hosted multiple new transactions in which the smaller party's annual revenue exceeds $1 billion, per Kaufman Hall's quarterly report. The news comes alongside signs of worsening operating performance in August.
Zocdoc acquired insurance technology company Sohar Health as it pushes to evolve beyond an appointment-booking marketplace into broader healthcare access infrastructure.