Wichita, Kan.-based GraceMed Health Clinic and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare's partnership to promote preventive care and healthy habits among high-risk Medicaid patient in Wichita is improving care, according to Wichita Business Journal.
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Meridian-based Blue Cross of Idaho named Ralph Woodard CFO effective Jan. 23, the insurer announced in a statement to Standard Journal.
Austin, Texas-based FirstCare Health Plans chose Hilary Greason as assistant vice president of network management.
These 15 contract resolutions and dissolutions occurred between payers and providers in the past month, beginning with the most recent.
U.S. Department of Justice lawyers questioned Aetna executives Monday about the payer's decision to exit the majority of ACA exchanges it operated in during an antitrust trial challenging Aetna's proposed $37 billion takeover of Humana, according to The Wall Street…
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Fifty-two million adults under age 65 have pre-existing conditions that would have likely made them uninsurable before the ACA eliminated pre-existing conditions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Pennsylvania saw an 11.4 percent increase in the number of children enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program over the past year, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana contracted with Madison, Wis.-based Exact Sciences Corp. to cover Cologuard — a colon cancer test — as an in-network service for its members.
As Republicans pledge quick change to the ACA, health insurers are amplifying their lobbying efforts in an attempt to keep the individual market from folding — a reality some payers feel could occur with the removal of the ACA's individual…
Parents with lower incomes are increasingly signing up their children for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, forgoing their employer-based family coverage, reports Kaiser Health News.