ALAMOSA — Friday Health Plans, the Colorado-based health insurance company with main operations located in Alamosa, is reducing the number of states where it offers health coverage from seven states to five, effective Jan. 1, 2023.
Health insurer UnitedHealthcare says a contract dispute with SUNY Upstate University Hospital could potentially disrupt care for about 20,000 Upstate patients in the Syracuse area. Upstate’s contract with UnitedHealthcare expires Dec. 31. If the insurer and hospital don’t reach a contract agreement by then, Upstate patients enrolled in some UnitedHealthcare plans will be “out of network” beginning Jan. 1.
A year after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) kicked Springfield Clinic, along with its 450 doctors and 200 advanced practice nurses, out of network, a top executive revealed that the clinic is “not optimistic about an agreement.”
Leaders of the state’s biggest hospital systems and insurers jousted Wednesday about how to manage the increasing costs of health care at a time when historic staffing shortages are threatening people's access to care. Dr. Anne Klibanski, the chief executive of Mass General Brigham, told the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission that hospitals are inundated with sick patients, and severely short on staff to care for them.
Through the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently testing a broad array of innovations designed to reduce Medicare program expenditures, enhance the quality of healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries, and improve the coordination and efficiency of healthcare service delivery.
The parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is selling Livio Health, a business that provides in-home health services to seniors. Livio will be acquired by Lifespark, a St. Louis Park-based company with a technology platform for helping seniors avoid trips to the hospital.
