Prime Healthcare Services' decision to backpedal on plans to terminate its contract with Anthem struck a chord with Becker's Hospital Review payer issues readers this week.
The following were among this week's most-viewed payer issues stories on Becker's Hospital Review.
1. Prime Healthcare Services rescinds plans to terminate Anthem contract
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services will remain in-network with Anthem Blue Cross after backtracking on plans to end its contract with the Indianapolis-based insurer hours after the decision was publicized.
2. Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, UnitedHealthcare resolve contract impasse
Greenville, S.C.-based Bon Secours St. Francis Health System and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare extended their previously terminated contract through June 30 to avoid a lapse in in-network coverage for approximately 10,000 patients.
3. CMS allows states to extend non-ACA-compliant plans through 2018
CMS issued an insurance standards bulletin Thursday, which gave another extension to non-ACA-compliant health plans.
4. California looks to a single-payer health system amid proposed ACA changes
The idea of a state-run single-payer system is not dead in California.
5. MDwise to lay off 79 employees in departure from Indiana Medicaid program
Indianapolis-based insurer MDwise will exit Indiana's Medicaid program at the end of this month, laying off 79 workers in the process.
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