Author: Jakob Emerson

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has named Tal Cohen as its first director of provider data.

A federal judge in Alabama has approved a final settlement of $2.67 billion with Blue Cross Blue Shield companies following a decade long legal battle over alleged anticompetitive behavior that negatively affected members, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 9.

Since its founding in 2013, Orange, Calif.-based Alignment Healthcare has recorded double-digit growth annually and expanded from its home state to reach more than 8 million Medicare-eligible seniors in dozens of counties nationwide.

From continued expansions of Medicare Advantage plans across the country to Michigan forcing a payer to cease all operations, these are 11 recent moves by insurers to exit or enter markets:

Montgomery County, Md., officials have invited companies based in states with restrictive abortion laws to relocate their headquarters to the Washington, D.C., area, WTTG reported Aug. 4.

Six individuals are suing Centene and its subsidiary Celtic Insurance for allegedly failing to pay for covered services and selling health plans on ACA marketplaces that have inaccurate provider networks, The Chicago Tribune reported Aug. 8.

The nation's largest payers have filed their second-quarter earnings reports, revealing which saw the biggest net incomes in the first six months of the year.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island has named two physicians to serve as senior medical directors: LouAnne Giangreco, MD, and Gonzalo Paz-Soldán, MD.  

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has named John Banta as vice president, national employee benefits administration and Blue Venture Fund.

Payers nationwide are rapidly growing their behavioral health provider networks by actively recruiting, increasing payments and training primary care physicians to care for more behavioral health conditions, according to a new survey from AHIP.