Caregivers who tend to family members without compensation have poorer health outcomes, according to new findings from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

Medicare Advantage plan Alignment Healthcare signed an agreement with San Diego-based Scripps Health to offer a new plan in San Diego County. 

Almost 600,000 healthcare workers are uninsured, with workers in Texas having the largest uninsured rate, according to an analysis from ValuePenguin, a LendingTree company.

CVS Health-owned Aetna will expand its home-based services to Medicare Advantage members in New York through a new relationship with in-home medical provider Landmark Health.

Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., is no longer in network with Florida Blue as of Sept. 1, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. 

San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Cigna said Sept. 2 that they reached a multiyear agreement to keep Dignity providers in Cigna's network, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

A physician group affiliated with TeamHealth may no longer be in network with Centene and its subsidiaries in Arkansas, according to a press release TeamHealth shared with Becker's.

Centene Corp. added three executives to its leadership team, the insurer said Sept. 1. 

Here are 10 recent updates on partnerships, disputes and policy changes affecting relationships between payers and providers: 

A North Carolina judge dismissed claims filed by health insurers who lost their bids to manage the state's Medicaid program, according to local news station WRAL.

The U.S. Defense Department has issued its draft request for proposals to manage military healthcare contracts that are potentially worth $58 billion, according to Bloomberg Government.

Aetna and the insurer's parent company, CVS Health, are offering a health plan in the Kansas City market that integrates both companies' services.

Many consumers are unaware of the extent to which health insurers can collect lifestyle or behavior data generated by purchasing, membership or online activity, according to a MITRE-Harris poll.

Neither Anthem nor Cigna will get billions in breakup fees and damages from the fallout of their proposed combination, a Delaware judge said Aug. 31 in an opinion cited by Bloomberg.

Out-of-network providers are inflating the price of COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody tests, according to a report from America's Health Insurance Plans.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota inked a six-year contract that will help stabilize revenue for providers and support care models focused on improving outcomes, the organizations said Aug. 27.

Louisiana and Texas hospitals will see some Medicare requirements waived as they face structural and financial hardships brought by Hurricane Laura.

CMS' encounter data continues to lack identifiers for ordering providers, which are used to identify potential fraud and abuse, according to a report from HHS' Office of Inspector General. 

About 12 million people who have lost their job in recent months have also seen their employer-sponsored health insurance cut off, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute. 

The following payer executives changed their positions in August.