UnitedHealthcare and Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare, one of the country's largest providers of emergency room services, agreed to extend their contract, effective Jan. 1.
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Nearly three-fourths, or 72 percent, of health plans sold on the 2019 ACA marketplace have narrow physician networks, according to an Avalere study.
The first study to show a causal relationship between the ACA's health insurance subsidies and financial stability has been provisionally accepted by the Journal of Public Economics, according to a report from CityLab.
Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services is set to go out of network with Humana's Medicare Advantage plans Jan. 1, according to the Daily Journal.
Members of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica Physician Group said low rates are the main sticking point in an ongoing contract spat with Aetna, according to The Blade.
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CMS issued a final rule to continue its risk adjustment program for the 2018 benefit year.
A banking processing error duplicated automatic monthly premium withdrawals from some Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming members' accounts, according to County 17.
Roughly 3.2 million Americans signed up for health insurance through the ACA exchanges in the first five weeks of the 2019 open enrollment period — an 11 percent decrease compared to the same period a year prior, according to The…
Newark, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System signed a value-based agreement with Medicaid managed care plan AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware, under which providers' payment will be tied to Medicaid beneficiaries' health outcomes.
Rural hospitals are questioning Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas' use of "strongarm" tactics to negotiate lower rates, according to the Observer.