More than 7,000 Blue Cross of Idaho members in Kootenai County will have to participate in the Kootenai Care Network if they want to get Blue Cross insurance next year, reports The Spokesman-Review.
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said more than 100,000 enrolled in ACA exchange plans Wednesday following Tuesday's election results, the highest of any day since enrollment commenced Nov. 1.
CMS unveiled 2017 premiums and deductibles for Medicare Part A and Part B programs, with high earners seeing lower hikes than originally predicted.
The CEO of Aetna said his team went back to the drawing board following Tuesday's election results to devise a course of action for an outcome they had not anticipated — potential repeal of the ACA, reports Hartford Courant.
The following payers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Chicago-based Health Care Service Corporation and Detroit-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are using Hortonworks Data Platform to update their data systems and enhance analytics usage.
Baltimore-based CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield tapped Boston-based emotional intelligence solution Cogito to help service representatives engage in personalized and empathic conversations with policyholders.
President-elect Donald Trump's vow to "repeal and replace" the ACA may be prove to be a matter of semantics rather than a dramatic change in healthcare policy, reports Kaiser Health News.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's and Fairview Health Services' current network contract expires Dec. 31, after which nearly 170,000 patients could lose access to Fairview services at discounted prices, reports Star Tribune.
A proposed constitutional amendment to create a universal healthcare system in Colorado was soundly defeated Tuesday night, reports The Denver Post.