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While San Francisco-based Dignity Health was on the cutting edge of value-based care in 2014, it was really creating "clinically integrated vehicles" that both aligned physicians with standardized quality and sparked a push toward value-based care, said Executive Director Kristin…

A Texas appellate court handed Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas a win against a lawsuit targeting the insurer's mental health coverage. 

A case study from the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy pointed to strong outcomes of the Partners Aligned in Transformative Healing program, which is coordinated by Burlington, Vt.-based UVM Medical Center and in partnership with Blue Cross and Blue…

A North Carolina appeals court ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services was in the right with its awarding of a handful of prepaid three-year Medicaid contracts. 

Truli for Health, a Florida Blue affiliate, is launching as a new health maintenance organization in collaboration with Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care. 

A new Sept. 21 Kaiser Family Foundation report provides a backdrop for congressional conversations on expanding Medicare benefits to include dental, vision and hearing. 

A new HHS Office of Inspector General report details that 20 insurers received about half of a $9.2 billion pool of suspicious Medicare payments made over the course of a year. 

In an effort to combat bias in healthcare, Blue Shield of California is teaming up with tennis champion and activist Venus Williams on a new campaign titled "Hear Me."

The Washington, D.C., branch of the NAACP and the Health Alliance Network filed a complaint to the HHS Office for Civil Rights regarding tension between MedStar Health, insurers and government. 

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts is launching a new feature for its 70 million users to record, review and show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in-app.