In a memorandum issued Wednesday to four of the state’s largest charitable health insurance providers and the Massachusetts Hospital Association, Attorney General Martha Coakley outlined a plan for her office to increase its oversight of compensation practices for executives and directors in Massachusetts non-profit charitable health care organizations.

Centene Corp. said Monday that the state of Massachusetts has accepted its proposal to manage health-care services for legal immigrants. (CNC)

A state anti-smoking campaign has helped 33,000 smokers who use the state’s medicaid program to quit, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.