CMS released 2018 Star Ratings for Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, with approximately 73 percent of all Medicare Advantage enrollees with prescription drug coverage enrolled in a plan earning an overall rating of four stars or higher.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center signed an agreement granting in-network status to Cigna policyholders buying coverage on the 2018 ACA exchange.
Cleveland Clinic linked up with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio to offer a Medicare Advantage plan, cleveland.com reports.
Molina Healthcare, a Long Beach, Calif.-based health insurer, tapped former Aetna executive Joseph Zubretsky as president and CEO, effective Nov. 6.
Only 21 percent of consumers receiving coverage through their employer use their health plan's member portal regularly, according to a recent HealthMine survey.
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The American College of Radiology, a Reston, Va.-based professional medical society, argued Anthem's new imaging policy for hospital-based MRI and CT scans is "arbitrary and unwise," according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch report.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina subsidiary PGBA, a Columbia, S.C.-based claims processing provider, is eliminating an unspecified number of positions, ABC 15 News reports.
Becker's Hospital Review reported these 10 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Oct. 3, beginning with the most recent.
Tower Health in West Reading, Pa. — formerly Reading Health System — and Independence Blue Cross inked a three-year contract, effective immediately.
Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following executive moves since Sept. 25. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.