George Burks has been promoted to lead executive of the group market segment for Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield in Little Rock. David Dundee has been promoted to lead executive of individual products. read more >
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield President and CEO Curtis Barnett will be the keynote speaker of the Davis Family Lecture Series on Oct. 22 at the University of Central Arkansas College of Business. read more >
Matthew Vannatta has been promoted to vice president of consumer and retail markets at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas officials have approved an average rate increase of about 2% next year for the four companies providing coverage through the state's health insurance exchange. read more >
Marcus James has been named senior vice president of claims and membership for Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas officials say the four companies providing coverage through the state's insurance exchange under the federal health care overhaul law are seeking an average rate increase of about 2% for next year. read more >
Gray Dillard has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer at Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the health insurer announced Monday. read more >
Dr. William Fiser Jr. has been hired as medical director at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield in Little Rock. read more >
The Little Rock mutual health insurance company is still the state’s largest private company with revenue of $2.48 billion in 2018. However, the revenue figure was down — a little less than 2% — from $2.52 billion in 2017, ending a streak of at least 15 years of revenue growth. read more >
Colleen Canfield was recently promoted from operating room manager to director of surgical services of White River Health System in Batesville. read more >
The departures of five companies that were acquired in the past year made room at the bottom of the list for companies that had not made the cutoff last year — or ever. The price of entry to the list? $100 million read more >
Mining land near Bauxite, an office building in west Little Rock and undeveloped residential land in Saline County form this week’s trifecta of big real estate transactions. read more >
Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola and Little Rock Regional Chamber CEO Jay Chesshir have binders full of statistics showing that economic development efforts are bearing fruit. Still, they acknowledge that Little Rock has a perception problem. read more >
Stacia DeWitt has been hired as sales director at Mutual of Omaha’s Little Rock office. read more >
Mallory Jordan has been hired as marketing and communications specialist for Arkansas State University-Newport. Kathryn Baker has been hired as marketing director for E.C. Barton & Co. in Jonesboro. read more >
Hoyt Louks has been promoted to director of Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s Blue Advantage national accounts and BlueAdvantage regular business division in Little Rock. read more >
Revenue at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield topped $2.5 billion last year, a milestone achieved by only one other company in the 30 years that Arkansas Business has been ranking private companies by revenue. read more >
Jessica Head has been hired as a director of operations and program development for the Venture Center in Little Rock. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs into law a bill that requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by the state. The Arkansas Pharmacy Benefits Manager Licensure Act requires licensure of any PBM that services any insurance plans that are not self-funded by employers. read more >
A special legislative session starting Tuesday is expected to result in deep-red Arkansas becoming the first state to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers. read more >
