Healthcare Finance Staff
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed several new health and insurance rules into law last week and vetoed a few others.
Trying to preserve an affiliation deal, insurer Highmark is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent West Penn Allegheny Health System from "starting affiliation/acquisition discussions with other organizations."
Humana inks 16-county Medicaid managed care deal in Kentucky; South Carolina to add 65,000 children to Medicaid; and Arkansas launches new Medicaid initiative in this week's Medicaid Digest.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and nonprofit health system Banner Health have announced an equal partnership designed to provide a coordinated Medicare Advantage plan to be known as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage.
Andrew Bazemore, MD
Director, The Robert Graham Center
Washington, D.C.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced Thursday its definition of high-performing health systems. Leaders of the trade association said they issued the definition to educate legislators and the public about the need for meaningful change to improve patient care.
The number of Medicare Advantage plans being offered is expected to increase next year, along with enrollment, which is a recipe for growth, according to an Avalere Health report.
Minnesota gets more grant money, 70 HIX questions from state lawmaker; Nebraska and Hawaii choose minimum benefit levels; and private exchanges on the rise in this week's HIX Digest.
A collaboration between NantHealth and Blue Shield of California announced Tuesday will see the two organizations develop a clinic-based "continuous learning center" (CLC) that will leverage supercomputing systems, high-speed, secure-fiber networks and fact-based genomic data systems, which will allow providers to provide personalized, molecular-based medicine.
One of California's largest health insurers has agreed to pay a settlement sum for an alleged data breach that compromised the personal health information of 33,756 of its members.