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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana launched a tool that allows customers to compare costs of medical procedures in more than 300 categories.

Two plaintiffs are accusing Blue Shield of California of improperly denying mental health and drug treatment claims for their children's care, according to a California Healthline report.

Two-day conference will bring together senior leaders from across healthcare to explore the provider-payer convergence trends, strategies and technologies transforming healthcare.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey received a court order allowing the insurer to keep the details of a $15.5 million contract violation penalty confidential, according to NJ.com.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri will no longer cover emergency department services it considers unnecessary, according to St. Louis Public Radio.

While North Carolina's largest insurer and one of its biggest providers are locked in public dispute over cost rates, the editorial board of the Asheville Citizen-Times argues that this is not an isolated incident, but instead a symptom of our…

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Congress needs to ensure viability in the private health insurance market if efforts to repeal and replace the ACA falter, Reuters reports.

As Congressional Republicans push forward with ACA repeal and replacement efforts, a spotlight has fallen on the health law's section 1332 innovation waivers, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation brief.

Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna will not offer health plans on Connecticut's individual market for 2018, NBC Connecticut reports.

Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota and Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota reached a deal Friday, saving 66,000 patients from paying out-of-network rates.