Cigna Medicare Advantage members in Delaware are eligible for a special enrollment period after a contract split between the insurer and Dover-based Bayhealth.

New Hampshire's insurance commissioner will mediate contract negotiations between Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Nashua-based St. Joseph Hospital after the organizations went out of network on Jan. 1.

Scripps Health and Anthem Blue Cross are out of network as of Jan. 1.

Aetna is now out of network with Providence hospitals in Oregon. 

UnitedHealthcare and Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health have reached a new multi-year contract. 

Humana and CommonSpirit hospitals in Colorado will go out-of-network Jan. 1, 2025. 

Georgia's Medicaid contract awards could cause three in four Medicaid recipients in the state to switch plans, according to Centene CEO Sarah London. 

Georgia will award Medicaid contracts to four Medicaid managed care organizations. 

Humana misrepresented the providers its Medicare Advantage plans will be in-network with in 2025, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison alleged. 

Editor's note: This story was updated Nov. 15 to reflect Huntsville Hospital Health System reached a new contract agreement with UnitedHealthcare.  Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System reached a new contract agreement with UnitedHealthcare, a day before several hospitals were set to go out of network. 

Michigan has canceled contracts with nine health plans to manage the state's Medicaid program for individuals dually-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. 

UnitedHealthcare and Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health have reached an agreement that will keep the health system in the payer's Medicare Advantage network in 2025.

Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners has reached an agreement on a multi-year contract with UnitedHealthcare.

Phoenix Children's is out of network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona as of Oct. 31. 

Ohio has awarded managed care contracts to four insurers to serve residents dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.

Texas will delay awarding Medicaid contracts until 2025, pausing a shakeup that could have led 1.8 million beneficiaries to switch plans, The Dallas Morning News reported Oct. 31. 

CMS has lifted an enrollment suspension on a UnitedHealthcare subsidiary's Medicare Advantage plan following three years of not meeting the required 85% medical loss ratio.

Regence BlueShield of Idaho will remain as the state's health plan administrator after a state judge dismissed a lawsuit from Blue Cross of Idaho that looked to invalidate the new contract, the Idaho Capital Sun reported Oct. 14.

Rhode Island officials agreed to reevaluate bids for its five-year Medicaid contract after two payers appealed the decision, the Rhode Island Current reported Oct. 16. 

UnitedHealthcare and York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health remain at odds over a new contract as their current deal is set to expire Oct. 31, ABC affiliate WHTM reported Oct. 14.