Several U.S. areas are at risk of having one or no health plans operating on the 2018 ACA exchanges, due in part to uncertainty surrounding the future of the ACA's cost-sharing reductions — which compensate payers for subsidizing costs for…
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Insurance regulators nationwide are offering filing deadline extensions and other flexibilities to incentivize health insurers to remain in the 2018 ACA exchanges, according to The Hill.
A study released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed a decline in insurer participation on the ACA health insurance exchanges since 2015.
Illinois will conduct a broad market examination of Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois' compliance with consumer protection regulations, a move it hasn't pursued since 1990, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Here are 35 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers reported by Becker's Hospital Review since Jan. 1.
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Minneapolis-based health insurance startup Bright Health secured $160 million in a Series B funding round.
The U.S. Comptroller General and U.S. Government Accountability Office head appointed Dana Gelb Safran, chief performance measurement and improvement officer and senior vice president of enterprise analytics at Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, to serve on the Medicare…
Omaha-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska will ditch its final two ACA-compliant individual health plans in 2018, according to a Live Well Nebraska report.
Saint Francis Muskogee (Okla.) and Tulsa-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma ended their interim in-network agreement May 31, according to a Muskogee Phoenix report.
San Antonio-based Allegian Health Plans, a wholly-owned managed care subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, divested 20,000 Medicare and commercial group members to Richardson-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.