Payer

The Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit organization sharing and analyzing unidentified claims datasets, partnered with the intelligence arm of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, the companies said Nov. 12.

UnitedHealth Group appointed Sir Andrew Witty as its president Nov. 11. 

Here are 10 lawsuits involving commercial and government payers posted by Becker's Hospital Review in the past month.

Roughly 15,600 older adults died prematurely from 2014-17 in states that didn't expand Medicaid under the ACA, according to a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank.

All but one of seven large commercial payers reported growth in their Medicare Advantage and other private Medicare membership in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019.

Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and L.A. Care Health Plan will open their first jointly operated community resource center in December, the organizations said Nov. 6.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois broke ground on its new center on Chicago's South Side Nov. 6.

UnitedHealthcare is facing another lawsuit that alleges the health insurer discriminated against members who received mental health services, according to The Recorder.

In September, Banner-University Health Plans, the managed Medicaid organization of Phoenix-based Banner Health, debuted a care coordination platform to safely share data between physicians and behavioral health providers caring for some of the state's most vulnerable patients.

Five recent articles posted by Becker's Hospital Review that concern payer-provider relationships: