Payer

Indianapolis-based Anthem moved to block Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna from ending their $54 billion merger agreement on April 30, when the contract is set to expire, according to a Law360 report.

St. Louis-based Centene saw net earnings rebound from a $16 million loss in the first quarter of 2016 to a $139 million surplus in the first quarter of this year.

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services moved to place Portland, Ore.-based Zoom Health Plan in receivership April 21.

Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts is slated to lose its largest client, Indianapolis-based Anthem, by 2019 amid a continuing legal battle, Bloomberg reports.

Here are seven contract impasses and agreements that took place between payers and providers in April so far.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. will replace Memphis-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare as an in-network hospital in BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's Network S, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.

Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare have yet to ink a provider agreement as of April 21, 2 News reports.

The CEO of Connecticut's health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, said he is apprehensive the state-based marketplace will have no insurers offering 2018 coverage, The CT Mirror reports.

Kentucky is currently negotiating a Medicaid overhaul with the federal government that includes monthly premiums, work requirements and a rewards program that requires "able-bodied" adults to earn vision and dental coverage, according to a report from the Courier-Journal.

Thirty-nine percent of health plan members said their insurer does not provide a cost predictor, according to a HealthMine survey.