Care Coordination

Detroit Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will collaborate on a value-based reimbursement model for the eight-hospital system.

Almost 55 percent of Puerto Ricans still don't have access to drinking water as of Saturday after Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm, struck the island two weeks ago, reports The Hill.

A team of engineers from University at Buffalo (N.Y.), joined by Intel Corp. and Garwood Medical Devices, received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a lung cancer detection technique, UBNow reports.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System's contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina expired following a monthslong feud.

Aetna members will maintain in-network access to Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare after the payer and provider renewed a contract set to expire in three months, Eyewitness News 3 reports.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and HealthPartners, a Minneapolis-based health plan managing government insurance, will launch Medicare plans in North Dakota and South Dakota effective Jan. 1.

Overland Park, Kan., is the best city in the U.S. for people with disabilities, according to analysis by WalletHub.

The Veterans Administration entered into a provider agreement with Atlantic City, N.J-based AtlantiCare to enhance veteran's access to care by granting VA Choice Program members access to AtlantiCare facilities, with approval from the VA.

A community program designed to increase primary care visits among Medicaid patients successfully reduced emergency department visits among this population by nearly 30 percent, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Public health experts and physicians are calling on the National Institutes of Health to renew research into gun violence, following the deadliest mass shooting in modern Amreican history, which killed 58 people and injured 500 in Las Vegas Sunday night,…