Kaiser Permanente Colorado, a health insurer and provider, is leaving two of the state's counties due in part to its inability to strike contracts with hospitals, according to Summit Daily.
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A Pennsylvania woman who was treated at a UPMC hospital for broken bones related to a horse-riding accident told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette she had to be her own care navigator due to a dispute between UPMC and Highmark.
Centene, the nation's largest provider of managed Medicaid services, led a $60 million funding round for behavioral health startup up Quartet.
Here are four recent articles posted by Becker's Hospital Review that concern payer-provider relationships:
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, a health plan with more than 79,000 members, partnered with Fort HealthCare in Fort Atkinson, Wis.
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Gaps in patients' and providers' perceptions of social determinants of health could affect policymakers' designs for social programs, according to a report from the Anthem Public Policy Institute.
Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health funneled $1.6 billion into programs focused on the health needs of homeless and mental health patients during 2018.
Amazon donated $8 million total in Seattle and Arlington, Va., to help increase affordable housing units for homeless people in its two headquarter cities. The tech giant will also match employee donations to 20 select charities for housing and homelessness…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order June 10 to create a "Master Plan for Aging," to prepare for 2030, when more than 4 million Californians will join the state's population of adults over age 65.
Global population health initiatives centered on blood pressure, sodium intake and trans-fat could help prevent 94.2 million premature deaths, according to research by Boston-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.