Payer Contracting

 CHI Memorial Hospital Georgia will be in-network with several Blue Cross Blue Shield Tennessee plans beginning Nov. 1. 

Mississippi's insurance commissioner said talks between Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi are continuing, only without the help of a mediator, ABC affiliate WTOK reported Oct. 26. 

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Johns Hopkins Medicine have signed a multiyear contract following a dispute over reimbursement rates that would have left hundreds of thousands of people out of network.

Delaware will not implement Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware's Medicare Advantage plan for 2023, after a judge sided with state retirees opposed to the plan, the Delaware News Journal reported. 

Independence Blue Cross signed a multiyear contract renewal with Labcorp. 

Centene has awarded its Pharmaceutical Benefit Management contract to Cigna's Express Scripts, the PBM said Oct. 25. 

Maryland's Congressional Delegation is urging CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Johns Hopkins Health System to resolve their contract dispute before the Dec. 5 deadline. 

A group of 35 state attorneys general signed on to an amicus brief supporting Oklahoma's laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers, published Oct. 18. 

More than six months after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi went out of network with Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center, the sides remain without a contract. Several weeks without progress led the state's insurance commissioner to suspend mediations…

Deadlines are looming in some payer-provider contract disagreements, while other ongoing negotiations are leaving members out of network.