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Premera Blue Cross is joining Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City in suing GS Labs over allegedly inflating the prices of COVID-19 tests. 

New York City-based EmblemHealth laid off 89 employees starting Oct. 15, according to an Oct. 18 New York labor department filing.

Blue Shield of California and Google Cloud are collaborating on a cloud-based solution that allows the insurer to process claims in real time. 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas is requiring its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to WIBW.

On average, Americans cumulatively spend 12 million hours a week talking to their health insurer, according to a Stanford study. 

AmeriHealth Caritas named two new executives to lead its Ohio Medicaid and Texas markets.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare out of both its macro- and micro-level comfort zones, driving payers to meet consumer demands with innovative solutions, Alan Murray, CEO and president of Empire BlueCross, wrote in an Oct. 15 piece for the Albany…

Through a partnership with Transcarent, Walmart is offering its savings on pharmaceuticals and other services to self-insured employers for the first time.

America's Health Insurance Plans submitted comments to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on Oct. 12 over the organization's Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of "Reasonable and Necessary" rule. 

Oct. 15 marks the start of the open enrollment period for Medicare beneficiaries, which spans through Dec. 7.