Board members of Idaho's individual health insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, flagged Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System's contract to counsel exchange enrollees as a possible conflict of interest, KIVI-TV reports.
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Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Medical Group/Southwest Medical Associates will end its evergreen contract with Presbyterian Health Plan, also in Albuquerque, Jan. 1, according to an Albuquerque Journal report.
President and CEO of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System Ron Paulus, MD, told Citizen-Times negotiations between the health system and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in Durham are nonexistent.
More than six months after proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers collapsed, four economists testifying in the cases met in Chicago to discuss the deals' sticking points and implications.
Five years after Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System began pursuing value-based payment agreements, projected premium savings remain absent, according to an Idaho Statesman report.
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Three major commercial payers saw their stock prices fall last week.
Medical Group of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg will participate in Camp Hill, Pa.-based Highmark Blue Shield's value-based reimbursement model.
Indianapolis-based Anthem backpedaled its planned exit from Virginia's individual health insurance marketplace, Forbes reports.
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna will release the second iteration of its TV Doctors of America campaign aimed at influencing consumers to access preventative care services.
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