Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and L.A. Care Health Plan will open their first jointly operated community resource center in December, the organizations said Nov. 6.
Care Coordination
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois broke ground on its new center on Chicago's South Side Nov. 6.
In September, Banner-University Health Plans, the managed Medicaid organization of Phoenix-based Banner Health, debuted a care coordination platform to safely share data between physicians and behavioral health providers caring for some of the state's most vulnerable patients.
Five recent articles posted by Becker's Hospital Review that concern payer-provider relationships:
The University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City will be considered an in-network provider for Medicare patients with health insurance through HealthPartners UnityPoint Health's health plan, according to The Gazette.
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Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, a Houston-based network of more than 400 physicians, will once again be a part of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas' provider network, the organizations said Nov. 6.
CMS approved its first demonstration project to expand behavioral health treatment for Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness living in the District of Columbia, the agency announced Nov. 6.
Almost 8 in 10 health insurance consumers who purchased their health plan through eHealth's private online marketplace shopped for coverage, according to a survey from the platform.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is focusing on strategies that use machine learning and artificial intelligence to share patient data with providers and other healthcare professionals, according to The Herald Sun.
Millennials' physical and behavioral health is declining faster than the previous generation, Gen-X, which could increase demand for healthcare services and raise costs, according to a Nov. 6 report from Blue Cross Blue Shield and Moody's Analytics.