Payer

Health insurance groups such as America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association have joined a coalition in support of surprise-billing solutions.

A judge tossed a request from nonprofit insurer Fallon Health to halt its former CFO from working for rival Aetna, according to the Telegram & Gazette.

Ascension Providence in Waco, Texas, will break ties with Scott & White Health Plan effective Sept. 1, according to a notice.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing June 12 on "Medicare for All." 

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

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, a health plan with more than 79,000 members, partnered with Fort HealthCare in Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Health Alliance Plan, a subsidiary of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Detroit-based Medicaid plan Trusted HP-Michigan June 10.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona appointed James Napoli, MD, its CMO.

Cigna will close one of its sites in Sioux Falls, S.D., and consolidate operations into another facility in the city, according to a company statement obtained by the Argus Leader.

Tampa, Fla.-based Health Insurance Innovations faces a class-action lawsuit accusing the health plan provider of misleading customers into thinking they purchased ACA-compliant coverage, according to The New York Times.