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Many payer-provider enablement solutions look great on a whiteboard.

CMS is seeking public input on challenges related to accessing healthcare and advancing health equity.  In a Sept. 6 news release, CMS said its looking for public perspectives on how it can implement health equity and better support the populations…

Empire BlueCross BlueShield HealthPlus opened a new community center in Flushing, Queens Sept. 9 to help combat health disparities and increase access to resources in underserved communities.

Noncitizens who use Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program benefits will not face immigration consequences, the Department of Homeland Security said Sept. 8. 

The American Medical Association says eliminating no-cost preventive care is "unwise and unthinkable." 

A federal judge questioned the arguments made by the Justice Department in its challenge of the proposed merger of UnitedHealth Group's Optum and Change Healthcare, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Several Senate Democrats are urging AHIP to ensure pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs (PrEP), which prevent HIV, are fully covered by payers. 

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Des Moines-based UnityPoint Health are partnering to offer health plans on the individual ACA market in Iowa for 2023.

Aetna is expanding its co-branded CVS Health insurance plans on the individual ACA marketplaces to a total of 12 states for 2023: Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, Texas and Virginia.

The cost of care has topped the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest healthcare concern facing Massachusetts residents, according to a Sept. 8 survey commissioned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.