CDPHP and St. Peter's Health Partners are taking shots at each other during routine contract negotiations — but despite the bad blood, both sides say they anticipate reaching an agreement by the end of the year, WAMC reported Nov. 11.
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Here are six payer merger and acquisition updates Becker's has reported since Oct. 17.
Dec. 31 deadlines are looming for some payer-provider contracts, while other disputes are dragging on and leaving patients out of network. Here are five updates on ongoing contract negotiations:
Aetna is partnering with Crossover Health to bring in-person and virtual value-based primary care to employer-sponsored health plans in the Seattle area.
Several payers are among the more than 100 healthcare organizations signing on to the White House and HHS' Health Sector Climate Pledge.
The nation's largest payers each expanded their Medicare Advantage offerings into hundreds more counties in 2023, according to a Nov. 10 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
UnitedHealthcare has named Emil Hill as senior vice president of communications, government programs.
South Dakota voters approved a measure to expand the state's Medicaid program under the ACA, but a slow rollout could occur, a Georgetown professor told Kaiser Health News Nov. 10.
Medicaid Health Plans of America has named Corey Pleasants as its first director of state affairs.
Clover Health CEO Andrew Toy told investors Nov. 7 that the company is reducing its participation in CMS' ACO Reach model by two-thirds.