Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay Berdan; Gary Loveman, Aetna’s vice president of consumer health and services; and newly appointed Texas Health Aetna CEO Jeff Cook sat together in a Hyatt Regency conference room Friday morning to discuss Texas Health Aetna, a new joint venture between the health system and the insurance provider. Full Story
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas has acquired certain Medicare Advantage and commercial group membership from Allegian Health Plans, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. Full Story
UnitedHealthcare has inked a deal with Baylor University Medical Center that will allow the insurer to bundle payments for the full treatment of spine and joint conditions at the East Dallas hospital. Full Story
The Arlington-based hospital system’s dozens of care sites will remain in-network for plan holders of the state’s largest insurance company. The two parties agreed to terms on Thursday and signed the contract, which will last through 2018. Full Story
Texas Health Resources and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas have agreed upon the financial details on a contract extension that would keep the Arlington system’s hospitals and affiliated physicians in-network, but a 90-day exit clause requested by Texas Health is keeping the insurance giant from signing. Full Story
More than a week has passed since the formal impasse between Texas Health Resources and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas began, which risks the hospital system with the largest market share in North Texas being out of network on the state’s largest insurance plan. And, in speaking to both sides, neither appear any closer to settling the dispute, which is reportedly over a $57 million increase requested by Texas Health. Full Story
The health plan joint venture formed between Texas Health Resources and Aetna will be helmed by Jeffrey Cook, a longtime insurance executive who comes to Arlington from the nation’s largest nonprofit health system. Full Story
A straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act could mean that the country’s hospitals would cumulatively incur $1.1 trillion in uncompensated care costs from 2019 to 2028, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Full Story
The Tenet Healthcare Corp. has reached a multi-year contract deal with St. Louis-based Centene Corp., giving its plan holders access to Tenet-owned facilities in 18 states, including Texas. Full Story
Discussions to extend an expiring contract between Texas Health Resources and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas fell apart on Monday afternoon, putting the Arlington-based provider’s dozens of hospitals and emergency centers as well as its hundreds of outpatient clinics at risk of falling out of network come January 1. Full Story
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