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Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., has created a provider network with SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicare Advantage insurer that operates mostly in California, according to a North Bay Business Journal report.

The American Hospital Association has updated its Medicare hospital payment calculators for value-based purchasing, readmissions reduction and disproportionate share hospitals for fiscal year 2014 based on a CMS correction notice.

The American Hospital Association is asking hospitals to submit data to its RACTrac survey, which the AHA conducts quarterly to assess how Medicare recovery audit contractors affect hospitals. AHA created the web-based survey because of the lack of data from…

Health Choice, the health insurance subsidiary of Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare, has launched several plan options on Arizona's health insurance exchange.

Health insurer Viva Health and Baptist Health System — both based in Birmingham, Ala. — have partnered to offer a new Medicare Advantage HMO plan, Viva Medicare Me, according to a report from The Birmingham News.

Florida Hospital in Orlando has opened an insurance office in Ormond Beach, Fla., to provide the public with information about its new health plans, according to a report from The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Some Kansas hospitals have said the state's decision earlier this year to move its Medicaid recipients onto a flat-fee managed care program called KanCare has led to delays in treatment and reimbursement, according to a report from The Topeka-Capital Journal.

WellCare Health Plans, an investor-owned health insurer based in Tampa, Fla., has aggressively expanded its operations in the past week, particularly within the Medicaid market.

The following are the latest issues that occurred between hospitals, health systems and payers within the past month, starting with the most recent.

Arkansas has received approval from HHS to expand Medicaid through the private insurance market, Gov. Mike Beebe has announced.