Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and UnitedHealthcare have reached a four-year agreement, which provides UnitedHealthcare members with in-network access to Tenet's facilities throughout the country.
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Optima Health, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based payer with 450,000 members, received a 4-star quality rating from CMS for its OptimaFit individual and family health plans. The rating is the highest score achieved by a health plan in the state of…
Nebraska's governor and director of insurance said the state's Senior Health Insurance Information Program saved Medicare beneficiaries more than $15 million over the past year.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana launched a wellness and loyalty program called Go365 for most Humana Medicare Advantage and commercial employer plans, effective Jan. 1.
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Indianapolis-based Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Owensboro (Ky.) Health are in negotiations to expand in-network care in western Kentucky and southern Indiana, reports Messenger-Inquirer.
The Alaska Division of Insurance is looking for federal funding to underwrite its reinsurance program that the division said will save the federal government $51.6 million, Alaska Dispatch News reports.
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna said it reduced member costs by $32 million since implementing value-based products and services in 2011.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association could make Anthem pay a $3 billion noncompliance fee if Anthem acquires Cigna but fails to bring in the majority of the resulting insurer's revenue through Blue-branded plans, Bloomberg reports.
Fitch Ratings has maintained its negative outlook on the health insurance sector and expects more health insurer rating downgrades than upgrades in the next one to two years.