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Indianapolis-based Anthem will move its proposed Atlanta-based IT center to a new 21-story office tower near the city's Technology Square.

Anthem Blue Cross in California lowered premium increases for 2018 following state regulator scrutiny, CaliforniaHealthline reports.

The CEO of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System called Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina "the most unethical, bullying foe that I have ever faced" in an email to senior employees obtained by Citizen-Times.

Cincinnati-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio added University of Cincinnati Medical Center to its Medicare Advantage provider network.

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

Monona-based Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp. claimed $1.34 million in unallowable costs in fiscal year 2012, according to a report from HHS' Office of Inspector General.

A policyholder alleged Cigna artificially inflated home healthcare prices to pocket consumers' overpayments, Bloomberg BNA reports.

WellCare of South Carolina, a subsidiary of WellCare Health Plans, launched a smartphone app to help Medicaid members in South Carolina manage their care, the health plan announced Oct. 4.

All hospitals affiliated with Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare — save for Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Ill. — will no longer be in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' preferred provider organization.

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.