Healthcare DIVE December 6, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

UnitedHealth, Elevance and some BCBS plans have deleted senior leadership pages from their corporate sites, while Centene and CVS scrubbed images of their executives online.

Major health insurers are deleting images of their top leadership from corporate websites or removing executive pages entirely following the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this week.

Thompson, 50, was shot multiple times in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday in what appeared to be a targeted attack. Though many of Thompson’s peers expressed grief, the killing set off a morbidly gleeful celebration on social media, where posters on sites like X and Reddit applauded and joked about the crime to vent frustration and anger with health insurers.

The shooting and subsequent reaction has...

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