Author: Jakob Emerson

From offering mental health services to all members to enhancing internal workflows through data management, here are eight recent partnerships between payers and other companies:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi is expected to drop University of Mississippi Medical Center hospitals, clinics and physicians from its network April 1 following a contract dispute.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama has named Noel Carden senior vice president and CFO and Mark Manderson as vice president of treasury operations, according to This Is Alabama.

Three payers are partnering with Boston-based Bicycle Health to offer opioid use treatments under Medicaid managed care plans. 

A lawsuit filed March 25 claims that Cigna failed to reimburse claims for medically necessary chiropractic and physical therapy treatments.

Optima Health is partnering with Virginia Beach, Va.-based fintech company FinFit to provide Medicaid enrollees with access to financial management resources. 

Florida Blue Medicare, the state's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan, is partnering with Franklin, Tenn.-based Emcara Health to offer house calls from primary care providers to members throughout Florida.

Rob Rhodes, MD, has been named president of Omaha-based Healthy Blue Nebraska, the health plan for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska.

CareOregon Advantage confirmed a data breach March 16 affecting 10,467 past and current members.

  From major wins in the courtroom to an expansion of its Minnesota campus, here are five recent headlines about UnitedHealth Group: