Cigna Healthcare and St. Louis-based BJC Health System reached a new agreement to keep the system’s patients in-network with the payer, the St. Louis Business Journal reported July 31. The new agreement went into effect Aug. 1, according to the…
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CMS has granted a special Medicare enrollment period for individuals affected by the July contract disagreement between UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health. CMS determined that the removal of the system’s hospitals from UnitedHealth’s MA network was…
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare are at odds over prior authorization requirements as they negotiate a new contract, The Baltimore Sun reported July 29. The sides have been negotiating a new contract for seven months and their current agreement…
Editor’s note: BCBS Arizona and HonorHealth reached an agreement on July 31. Original article: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Scottsdale-based HonorHealth will go out of network on Aug. 1 without a new contract in place. The contract is…
Columbia, Mo.-based MU Health Care is back in network with some Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans after a more than three-month split. In a July 15 statement, the system and insurer said they had reached an agreement in principle…
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Florida Blue and Fort Lauderdale-based Broward Health went out of network on July 1. The network split impacts all Broward hospitals and physicians for Florida Blue’s commercial, ACA and Medicare Advantage members. Florida Blue notified around 18,000 people about the…
Representatives from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care testified before a state committee on June 30 regarding a disagreement over reimbursement rates. Since April, MU Health Care’s physicians and facilities have been out of…
UnitedHealthcare, Centene, Elevance Health and other insurers have picked up Medicaid managed care contracts in 2025. Here are three states awarding new contracts Becker’s has reported so far in 2025:
Several major health systems and insurers went out of network on July 1. Contract disputes between insurers and health systems are down in 2025 compared to the second half of 2024. In the first quarter of 2025, 26 total disputes…
UnitedHealthcare and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health have mutually agreed to go out of network on July 1 for Medicare Advantage plans. Brown’s hospitals in Rhode Island will be out of network for UnitedHealth’s MA plans, including D-SNP and group…