CMS' Innovation Center will delay the start of a new payment model called Primary Care First by a year, according to timeline updates on the model's information page.
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Anthem recorded higher revenues and profits during the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, according to recent earnings statements.
UnitedHealth Group dropped an appeal asking the Supreme Court to uphold a controversial billing tactic, according to Bloomberg Law.
Centene Corp. recorded increased revenues and profits in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, according to an earnings report.
New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts agreed to a new four-year contract.
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Introducing a public health insurance option into markets could lower premiums among commercial payers, according to a study published by the left-leaning Urban Institute, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Between December 2017 and June 2019, more than a million children were no longer enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, according to census data analyzed by The New York Times.
Mobile-based University of South Alabama hospitals will no longer be in UnitedHealthcare's Mississippi Medicaid managed care and children's provider networks, according to the Clarion Ledger.
CMS said Oct. 22 that the average premium for silver plans on the ACA health insurance exchange fell for the second year in a row.
Insurance departments in five states approved Centene's proposed $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare Health Plans, bringing the total number of state approvals to 24.