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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's medical home program, since its inception in 2011, has lowered the expected cost of care for its members by nearly $1.2 billion.

Hendricks Regional Health's Brownsburg (Ind.) Hospital, a six-bed facility, said Anthem will not cover certain services at the facility because the insurer deems it a microhospital, according to a WFYI Indianapolis report.

California state Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, withdrew his bill aimed at ending health systems' "all or nothing" approach to contracting with payers, which requires payers to contract with all hospitals in a system or none, according to a San Francisco…

Thirty-nine percent of large employers today offer their staff only high-deductible health plans, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health. Representing a 7 percent increase from 2009, the trend toward high-deductible health plans is leaving more…

Boston-based Partners HealthCare will shift health insurance coverage for all of its employees from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to its system-owned health plan, according to The Boston Globe.

Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi have four days to negotiate new contract terms before the academic medical center goes out of network with the insurer July 1, according to the Clarion…

In November 2017, Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group's Optum bought the Advisory Board for $1.3 billion.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, CVS Health's pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark, sharply reduced payments to pharmacies, and many critics are questioning the timing of the cuts, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Salesforce will roll out a solution to support health insurers in October.

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health named Geovani Bonilla IU Health Plans' vice president of medical operations.