Payer

UnitedHealth Group constitutes more than 70 percent of successful business deals pursued by U.S. managed care companies during the past five years, according to a column published in Bloomberg Gadfly.

Oklahoma City-based Integris Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma in Tulsa eluded an Aug. 31 contract termination Tuesday.

The approximately 243,000 Marylanders enrolled in individual exchange plans will see an average 33 percent premium increase for 2018.

Health Care Service Corp., the Chicago-based operator of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, opened its Customer First Innovation Lab in Dallas Aug. 24.

Several national health insurers pledged assistance in the wake of Hurricane Harvey's landfall and subsequent catastrophic flooding.

Providers and some patient advocates have argued payers contribute to the opioid epidemic through benefit limits on nonopioid rehabilitative treatments that may incentivize physicians to overprescribe opioids, according to a report by the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, based at…

Indianapolis-based Anthem stopped covering outpatient MRIs and CT scans at hospitals without prior approval, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.

Becker's Hospital Review reported these 11 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers in August, beginning with the most recent. 

Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System will stop accepting Aetna Better Health Medicaid plan Sept. 1, according to a Northwest Herald report.

Cleveland Clinic and CareSource, a Medicaid managed care plan in Dayton, Ohio, agreed to extend their in-network contract until Dec. 1.