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‘Well-being is for everyone’: CareFirst adds range of emotional and mental health tools
Maryland insurance provider CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield added Los WellSet, a digital holistic health studio that offers various emotional and mental health tools.
CareFirst joins with Aledade to reduce health care costs
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Aledade Inc., a Bethesda-based public benefit corporation, announced the formation of a strategic alliance.
Curation Health, UMMS, CareFirst enter into value-based medicine partnership
Annapolis-based Curation Health will partner with University of Maryland Medical System and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to improve population health and wellness through value-based care programs.
Johns Hopkins Medicine, CareFirst reach new contract agreement, reversing planned split
Johns Hopkins Medicine and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced an agreement on a new multiyear contract.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield recommits to Maryland headquarters
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health care company in the Mid-Atlantic region, announced a renewed 15-year lease for its Maryland headquarters.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to require workforce to get vaccinated
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced it will make COVID-19 vaccinations a requirement for its workforce, Boards of Directors and guests.
CareFirst acquires Medicaid plans in Maryland, Washington
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has purchased Medicaid managed care organization plans in Maryland and Washington as the region’s dominant health insurer adds Medicaid plans to its portfolio for the first time in decades, the insurer announced Friday. The nonprofit insurer bought University of Maryland Health Partners, owned by the University of Maryland Medical System, and Washington, [&hellip[...]
CareFirst and LifeBridge team up on startup competition, other efforts
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and LifeBridge Health hope that combining to fund innovative health startups can suggest ways to cut costs and find efficiencies across the payer-provider relationship. The effort started Wednesday morning with a pitch competition where the insurer and the hospital also announced plans for an innovation center set to open late this year […]
Hopkins says Pugh sought to sell it ‘Holly’ books
An employee of Johns Hopkins Health System was approached by then-Sen. Catherine Pugh about buying her “Health Holly” children’s books but declined, a system spokeswoman said Wednesday. At the time, Pugh sat on the Senate Finance Committee, the panel responsible for legislation affecting hospitals. Johns Hopkins University and the health system each have no record […]
CareFirst sees some members take advantage of less-expensive plans
More than 1,600 CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield members on the individual market heeded the insurer’s call to switch plans for 2019, potentially tapping into hundreds of dollars a month in savings. While preparing its rates for 2019, CareFirst realized that thousands of its members in PPO plans were paying more for the same services they could […]
Baltimore sues drugmaker as pharmaceutical spending rises
Frustration over the rising cost of prescription drugs may be reaching a tipping point for Maryland stakeholders. Last week, Baltimore, which runs a self-funded health plan for its employees, filed a federal lawsuit alleging a pharmaceutical company had engaged in anti-competitive practices that kept a generic version of one of its products from coming to […]
CareFirst considers offering Medicare and Medicaid products
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield may make a play to enter the Medicare Advantage and managed Medicaid markets, Brian Pieninck, the insurer’s president and CEO, said. Pieninck took over as CareFirst’s president and CEO over the summer. CareFirst has not been in the Medicare Advantage market in nearly two decades, but Pieninck sees the market as an […]
