Dayton-based insurance company CareSource announced today it is partnering with a Texas company in a joint venture to serve Medicaid customers in Texas. CareSource is partnering with Legacy Community Health, a health care system with over 50 locations in the Texas Gulf Coast region, to form CareSource Bayou Health, which plans to apply to serve Texas Medicaid managed care customers.
Hundreds of public employees rallied at the statehouse Tuesday against a proposed increase to their health insurance plans that could raise their costs as much as 20%, but which some say could trickle down to taxpayers statewide.
Governor Kate Brown is applauding her state becoming the first to earn federal approval for Medicaid reimbursement of mobile crisis intervention services. Brown pointed to the CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) program run by the White Bird Clinic in Eugene, whose teams work to de-escalate difficult situations, and help people in crisis find essential support services.
Insured and uninsured Americans can receive the new bivalent Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 booster and other COVID-19 vaccines at no cost as long as the federal government continues to purchase and distribute them.
CLEVELAND, Ohio –The city of Cleveland is changing its employee health insurance plans to add gender-affirming care and more coverage for abortion services. The city requested the coverage changes as of Sept. 1, but it may take until October for the insurance companies to process the request and begin covering the new services for city workers.
Health Partners Plans Inc., a nonprofit insurer founded in the 1980s by a collection of Philadelphia hospitals, has entered a new era under 100% ownership by Thomas Jefferson University since last November.
