The following payers made headlines this past week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will drop Arlington-based Texas Health Resources from its network Jan. 1, unless the two organizations reach a new contract by the end of the year, according to The Dallas Morning News.
American Medical Association President Andrew Gurman, MD, issued a statement Monday in support of blocking Aetna's acquisition of Humana.
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.
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.