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Florida Blue Medicare, the state's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan, is partnering with Franklin, Tenn.-based Emcara Health to offer house calls from primary care providers to members throughout Florida.

Rob Rhodes, MD, has been named president of Omaha-based Healthy Blue Nebraska, the health plan for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska.

CareOregon Advantage confirmed a data breach March 16 affecting 10,467 past and current members.

  From major wins in the courtroom to an expansion of its Minnesota campus, here are five recent headlines about UnitedHealth Group:

Medicare's hospice regulations are not working as intended for many people with dementia, a Rutgers University sociologist told the Washington Post in a March 26 article. 

Free COVID-19 testing options are starting to disappear for Americans without health insurance after federal funding has run out, according to ABC News.

The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange penned a letter March 24 to HHS and the U.S. Commerce Department, urging better protections for patient health data on third-party applications. 

5 payer data breaches over the last 6 months: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas: Subcontractor Morley Companies reported a data breach March 24 that affected about 2,800 BCBS of Kansas members. No Social Security or financial information was…

The National Committee for Quality Assurance honored Centene with the Innovation Award for Health Equity.

The vast majority of Americans are satisfied with their supplemental health insurance plans that help pay for critical medical expenses, according to a survey released March 24 by America's Health Insurance Plans.