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Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare and Highmark Health announced a 10-year joint venture April 21. Here are five things to know:

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced a five-year goal to reduce racial disparities in maternal health by 50 percent. The goal is part of the payer's National Health Equity Strategy, an initiative to expand healthcare access to disenfranchised populations.

Anthem recorded a higher profit in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 than the year prior, thanks in part to growth in its government businesses.

Oscar Health now has a technology platform called +Oscar, the health insurance startup said April 20.

A Connecticut physician practice suing Cigna over COVID-19 payments exploited a national health emergency and overcharged insurers for diagnostic tests, Cigna claimed in recent court filings.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is launching a variety of partnerships and programs to assist the "10th hungriest state" in the U.S.

A New Jersey insurance producer pleaded guilty to filing false statements regarding the delivery of $1.5 million in fraudulent claims by Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Department of Justice said April 19. 

The Aetna Connected Plan with CVS Health is the latest joint venture to offer expanded healthcare resources to the St. Louis and Southern California markets.

Stanford (Calif.) Health Care filed a lawsuit against Anthem, claiming its subsidiary Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana didn't pay the proper amount for services given to patients. 

Health insurer Humana failed to comply with some federal coding requirements, resulting in overpayments of $197.7 million, according to an inspector general's report released April 20.