In October 2017, Anthem unveiled plans to establish an in-house pharmacy benefits manager called IngenioRx. Now, amid increasing public scrutiny of PBMs, executives at the Indianapolis-based insurer are promising a much more consumer-friendly, transparent experience, according to Bloomberg.

President Donald Trump's administration is considering requiring hospitals and providers to publish the prices they negotiate with payers for patients to see, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit filed against Cigna that accuses the health insurer of committing securities fraud, according to the New York Law Journal.

Three health insurers filed status reports with the federal government March 5 asking for billions in unpaid cost-sharing reductions payments. While the insurers don't agree on the estimate, a group of insurers' class-action lawsuit estimates damages of more than $2 billion, according to Health Affairs.

Cory Scott is the new CEO of Texas Health Aetna, a joint venture launched by Arlington-based Texas Health Resources and Aetna in 2017.

CMS is requesting information about how to best help health insurers sell policies across state lines, the agency said March 6.

Here are five recent articles posted by Becker's Hospital Review that concern payer-provider relationships:

Here are eight lawsuits involving payers posted by Becker's Hospital Review since mid-February:

The U.S. health insurance market we know in 2019 is already drastically different and more challenging than the one we left behind in 2018.

A judge ruled that a UnitedHealth Group unit instituted guidelines that denied care to patients needing mental health treatment to cut costs, according to The New York Times.

An Atlanta law firm filed a lawsuit under the ACA that seeks to allow thousands of individuals with Anthem Blue Cross coverage to get a special enrollment period after they were "falsely" lured into plans that didn't include certain providers, according to a March 4 complaint.

Price-shopping is not something most Americans with high-deductible health plans do, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

America's largest health insurers are seeing unprecedented growth in their Medicare Advantage businesses.

Cigna CEO David Cordani said in private that he regretted agreeing to merge with Anthem, despite publicly backing the deal as good for investors, Anthem lawyers alleged in court March 4, according to Bloomberg.

Hospitals of Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare are no longer in UnitedHealthcare's provider network. However, Tennova physicians are still in the insurer's network, causing confusion for patients, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Health insurance startup Oscar Health said telemedicine use among its members is five times higher than the average for the industry, according to its year-end review.

Seventy percent of adults aged 55 to 64 cite affordability as one of the main reasons they purchase a short-term health plan, according to a survey from online health insurance platform eHealth.

Low-income and high-income women who were switched to high-deductible health plans experienced delays in breast cancer diagnostic testing, early stage diagnosis and chemotherapy initiation, compared to women remaining in low-deductible plans, according to a study published in Health Affairs.  

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina plans to send rebates to about 700,000 members after its administrative and other costs surpassed an ACA cap, according to The Coastland Times.

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didn't outright dismiss the possibility of a single-payer health plan in an interview with Rolling Stone, she questioned how the proposal would be paid for, according to The Hill.