Blue Shield of California has expanded access to mental healthcare resources by connecting members to an online platform that offers personalized well-being assessments and information.
The platform,...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has provided grant funding to community-based organizations in Washtenaw County to help support the health and wellbeing of older adults.
The payer is one of three...
CareSource has partnered with Walmart to address maternal and racial health disparities in underserved communities by leveraging the retail giant’s in-store community health workers.
The payer,...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) has joined forces with value-based care provider Homeward to expand access to care for Medicare Advantage members living in rural Minnesota...
Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana (PHP) is looking to improve primary care access for members by partnering with healthcare provider Premise Health to open a primary care center for clients...
Medicare Advantage plans denied 2 million prior authorization requests in 2021 and just 11 percent of those requests were appealed, according to an issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation...
Aetna’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) organization, Aetna Better Health Kids, has contributed $50,000 to help increase access to trauma-informed, affordable healthcare for...
Almost two-thirds of beneficiaries were uninsured for part or all of the year following disenrollment from Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), an issue brief from the...
Elevance Health has announced plans to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana (BCBSLA), with the payers aiming to improve care access, quality, and affordability for Louisiana...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued guidance allowing federal and state governmental agencies to send automated calls and text messages providing individuals with information about...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped boost health insurance coverage for individuals with schizophrenia, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Between 0.25 percent and...
Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care have partnered with a connected healthcare delivery platform to improve access to LGBTQ+ care for commercial health plan members.
The collaboration...
High perceived healthcare costs are the biggest barrier to health insurance for the uninsured population, according to a survey conducted on behalf of Florida Blue.
The online survey polled uninsured...
Blue Shield of California and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona will help boost access to care for active-duty service members and their families in the TRICARE West Region by supporting a contract...
A United States district court has ruled against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL), stating that the payer cannot exclude coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care in its...
Avoiding public programs due to the public charge rule, such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was linked to higher rates of delayed healthcare among immigrants in...
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia for denying coverage of transgender-related healthcare for members of the Georgia State Health...
Privately-insured Americans experienced higher rates of heat-related illness diagnoses in 2021 compared to 2016, in some cases a more than 37 percent increase, according to a report from FAIR...
High deductibles may discourage women from receiving follow-up testing after an abnormal mammogram, with one in five saying they would skip additional imaging if they knew they had to pay a deductible,...
Mental healthcare services utilization and network size have grown significantly since 2019 among Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (“Blue Cross”) members, according to data from Blue...
