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Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and L.A Care Health Plan have teamed up to open a new community center in Inglewood, Calif., to offer free health resources and classes. 

Montana Medicaid underpaid providers of care for seniors in assisted living facilities, people with disabilities and children and adults with mental illness, a study commissioned by the state's legislature found, as reported Sept. 7 in the Montana Free Press. 

UnitedHealthcare and Nashville-based Envision Healthcare have each filed a lawsuit against the other in a Tennessee federal court over a disagreement about payments for emergency care.

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.