Centene Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire MHM Services Feb. 26.
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Eleven joint venture health plans have been formed between provider systems and health plans since 2013, according to Health Affairs, with two others reported by Becker's Hospital Review but not featured on the list.
A Delaware judge ruled UnitedHealth Group's shareholders can rifle through 12 years of the payer's records to support allegations UnitedHealth directors partook in Medicare fraud, Bloomberg Law reports.
Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., the umbrella company of five Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, will invest $1.5 billion in initiatives to cut its members' healthcare costs.
UnitedHealth Group plans to tie $75 billion of its payments to value-based care contracts by the end of 2020, up from $64 billion in 2017, according to the insurer's annual report on value-based care progress.
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Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in Ohio's General Assembly aimed at stopping Anthem and other health insurers from denying coverage to members using the emergency department under certain circumstances, cleveland.com reports.
A recent study found more than one-third of genetic tests ordered by a single medical center during a three-month period were misordered, resulting in $20,000 in unnecessary cost.
Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Mass., is alerting 70,000 members to an inadvertent disclosure of their health plan information after it was exposed in the window of envelopes mailed out by one of its vendors, the insurer told Becker's Hospital…
Phoenix-based Banner Health and Aetna named Joanne Mizell COO of their joint health plan, AZ Big Media reports.
While some states made premiums part of their Medicaid expansion programs, few enrollees are making the payments, according to a Kaiser Health News report.