Tennessee's Medicaid program has launched an effort to better integrate patients' physical and mental healthcare, with the aim of saving state and federal money and improving patient care, according to NPR.
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Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health posted net income of $629 million on revenues of $9.2 billion in the first half of fiscal year 2019.
Blockchain networks are being used within the healthcare insurance arena to improve the tracking of multiple transactions from different sources, according to The Signal.
Medica, a health insurer based in Minnesota, will cap the cost of insulin for its Minnesota members at $25 a month, according to TwinCities.com.
Kansas officials have notified Aetna that its Medicaid contract is in danger of being terminated for failing on the agreement, according to public radio station KCUR.
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Cigna is planning to expand its Medicare Advantage footprint by 14 percent next year, according to Forbes.
After months of mediation, a lawsuit filed by WellStar Health Systems against Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, known as Anthem Blue, is still pending, according to the Cobb Business Journal.
The Louisiana Department of Health has selected Humana as one of four Medicaid managed care organizations that it will contract with for Medicaid benefits and services.
Only one health system — Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health — agreed to join the North Carolina State Health Plan during the second sign-up period, which ended Aug. 5, reports the Winston-Salem Journal.
UnitedHealthcare is offering free emotional support for people affected by last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.