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Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Law School's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation filed complaints with HHS' Office for Civil Rights against seven insurers in eight states for allegedly engaging in discriminatory drug coverage practices, according to Healthcare Finance.

More health insurance companies are offering patients narrow networks to save money, with many studies showing narrow networks do not negatively impact patient access or care. However, a recent study presents different results and raises questions about narrow networks' sustainability,…

Healthcare payers are adopting value-based care arrangements at a slower pace than expected according to a survey from Premier.

On Oct. 14, HHS released the final Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act rule, which aims to help providers succeed under value-based care. While some physicians are applauding CMS' efforts, others say it may not go far enough, according to…

Anthem and Cigna were ordered on Oct. 14 to release emails between the two companies accusing each other of breaching the potential merger agreement, the Hartford Courant reports.

J.P. Morgan analysts downgraded Anthem from "neutral" to "overweight" causing a 2 percent drop in the insurers stock price, TheStreet reports.

UnitedHealth Group reported its third quarter results, with revenues of $46.3 billion.

The Health Insurance Marketplace of Arizona is going to be limited to a single insurer in 12 of 15 of the state's counties, the Daily Courier reports.

A law allowing providers to charge Medicaid patients for missing appointments in the state of Missouri needs federal approval before it can be implemented, The Columbia Missourian reports.

Art Woolf, an associate professor of economics at the University of Vermont, believes the state's soon-to-be implemented all-payer system will be unsuccessful, he said in a column for the Burlington Free Press.