Tupelo-based North Mississippi Medical Center filed a lawsuit against Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare one week after the two organizations reached a temporary agreement over an ongoing payment dispute, Daily Journal reports.
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Marietta, Ga.-based MiMedx Group's EpiFix diabetic foot ulcer treatment will now be covered by Hartford, Conn.-based payer Aetna.
Before Medicaid expansion, people with disabilities often opted out of low income work because they were unable to cover medical expenses, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health and featured by Reuters.
In a whitepaper, Big Bang Health highlights how the fragmented healthcare system often does not meet many employer's needs and how Big Bang Health Mission Control is working to change that.
A S&P Global Report analysis forecasts health insurers will start seeing financial losses reverse on their ACA individual marketplace plans in 2016 after "hitting bottom" in 2015, CNBC reports.
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Tupelo-based North Mississippi Medical Center and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare reached a temporary agreement to allow more than 50,000 UnitedHealthcare policyholders access to NMMC services at in-network rates, Mississippi Business Journal reports.
The population that gained health insurance under the ACA was examined by the Urban Institute to analyze health coverage changes based on several demographics.
The following health insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice and insurers Aetna and Humana answered a judge's closing questions during the final day of an antitrust trial in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Hartford Courant reports.
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana pushed back the deadline for their $37 billion acquisition agreement to Feb. 15.