Centene will pay Texas $165.6 million to settle the state's investigation into if the payer violated Medicaid fraud laws, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Sept. 19.
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Amarillo, Texas-based Baptist St. Anthony Health System will go out of network with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas on Dec. 7 if the sides are unable to agree on a new contract, ABC affiliate KVII reported Sept. 19.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City will move its headquarters to a new 260,000-square-foot space in Kansas City, Mo.
Only one of the eight payers operating in Colorado's new state-sponsored plan will meet state benchmarks to reduce premiums by 5 percent this year, according to a report from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative.
Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare plans have similar rates of satisfaction with care and overall care coordination among beneficiaries, a review, published Sept. 16, of 62 studies comparing the plans found.
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In the wake of severe flooding and tornadoes that damaged communities in rural Kentucky in July, Humana Foundation CEO Tiffany Benjamin says future investments in rural areas can help bolster health equity before natural disasters strike again.
Employers expect the costs of providing health insurance to their employees to rise, a survey from Willis Towers Watson found.
Cigna has joined other payers in covering a noninvasive neurostimulation device from BrainsWay that treats obsessive-compulsive disorder.