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Georgia's insurance commissioner has fined Blue Cross Blue Shield $5 million for violations of state laws and agency rules and regulations, the commissioner's office said March 29. 

Three payers are partnering with Boston-based Bicycle Health to offer opioid use treatments under Medicaid managed care plans. 

A lawsuit filed March 25 claims that Cigna failed to reimburse claims for medically necessary chiropractic and physical therapy treatments.

Optima Health is partnering with Virginia Beach, Va.-based fintech company FinFit to provide Medicaid enrollees with access to financial management resources. 

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.

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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.