Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is upping the ante on transparency with its new Health Cost Estimator by offering contracted prices instead of provider charges, and by estimating the cost…
Consumer-driven health plans are beginning to make inroads in the small-group market of Kansas-Missouri. The largest plan in Missouri, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has a significant portion of i…
The Michigan health insurance industry has been preoccupied with a legislative battle over the individual health insurance market that pits Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan against other health plan…
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut, Aetna, AmeriHealth Mercy and UnitedHealth Group plan to submit bids for the care management contracts for residents eligible for Medicaid and the Chil…
Washington's individual health insurance market is growing, but medical cost trends have resulted in double-digit premium increases. As a result, the state's insurance commissioner is backing…
Health plans operating in the Toledo area largely have deserted a holdover of 1980s managed-care contracts by eliminating “steerage,” which sent patients to a single, large hospital system….