Payer

Tulsa-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma is working to ease any concerns Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center and other providers may have regarding their contracts, according to a Stillwater News Press.

CareSource, a Dayton, Ohio-based managed care company, will sell ACA health plans next year in the last U.S. county without health coverage on the exchanges, reports The Hill.

The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent. 

Anthem tapped Jacquelyn H. Wolf to serve as executive vice president and chief human resources officer, effective Aug. 28.

Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Health System and its five hospitals are operating out of network with Anthem Blue Cross after contract negotiations ended in impasse last week, according to the Long Beach Press Telegram.

The contract between Tulsa-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma and Sallisaw, Okla.-based Sequoya Memorial Hospital expired Aug. 1, according to KJRH.

HealthNow New York, a Buffalo-based insurer and umbrella company of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York in Buffalo, sued the federal government claiming it is owed more than $38.7 million under the ACA's risk corridors program, New York Law Journal…

Durham-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will discontinue its grandfathered health plans Jan. 1.

Ongoing developments in Washington have led many to question the future of healthcare reimbursement programs like Value Based Purchasing, Bundled Payments and other population health-driven initiatives.

Iowa submitted a request to President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday to rewrite ACA regulations and give state officials authority to make emergency changes to their insurance laws, according to The Hill.