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Health Care Services Corp., a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate, is suing Jazz Pharmaceuticals over narcolepsy drug Xyrem. 

California-based L.A. Care Health Plan is offering primary care physicians incentives to give members their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination. 

A bipartisan group of 63 senators wrote a letter to HHS declaring their support for Medicare Advantage in the short and long term. 

Arkansas lawmakers are making health insurance premium stability among government employees a top priority in the state, according to a Feb. 20 report from the Texarkana Gazette.

States like California and New York have made headlines both for taking steps toward creating a single-payer healthcare system and failing to turn momentum into actionable legislation, according to a Feb. 21 National Review report. 

Cigna largely draws its C-Suite talent internally, anchored by members with decades of experience with the payer.

Centene made campaign contributions to the majority of Mississippi's lawmakers and state officials while the state was actively investigating whether the payer had misrepresented Medicaid costs to collect overpayments, according to the Daily Journal. 

Health leaders are anticipating that the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, and the majority of payers are reinstating cost-sharing policies that were waived for much of the pandemic, according to the Star Tribune. 

As it enters its second year of offering a public health insurance option, Washington state is blaming hospital resistance for the program's slow adoption, according to a Feb. 21 NPR report. 

Missouri, one of the latest states to expand its Medicaid program, is facing a backlog of new enrollee sign-ups, causing delays well past what federal law allows, according to Kaiser Health News.