CMS on June 26 released set of updates detailing the agency's initiatives to strengthen Medicaid program integrity, including a milestone related to the agency's Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System.
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Starbucks has spent a year working with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to create a benefits package that offers comprehensive coverage for transgender employees, according to them.
Bind, a digital health insurance startup, is using machine learning algorithms to design health plans that allow customers to add coverage as they need it, according to CNBC.
A joint health plan owned by Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Aetna filled out its C-suite, led by recently appointed CEO Tom Lindquist.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's medical home program, since its inception in 2011, has lowered the expected cost of care for its members by nearly $1.2 billion.
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Hendricks Regional Health's Brownsburg (Ind.) Hospital, a six-bed facility, said Anthem will not cover certain services at the facility because the insurer deems it a microhospital, according to a WFYI Indianapolis report.
California state Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, withdrew his bill aimed at ending health systems' "all or nothing" approach to contracting with payers, which requires payers to contract with all hospitals in a system or none, according to a San Francisco…
Thirty-nine percent of large employers today offer their staff only high-deductible health plans, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health. Representing a 7 percent increase from 2009, the trend toward high-deductible health plans is leaving more…
Boston-based Partners HealthCare will shift health insurance coverage for all of its employees from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to its system-owned health plan, according to The Boston Globe.
Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi have four days to negotiate new contract terms before the academic medical center goes out of network with the insurer July 1, according to the Clarion…