BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD

Diagnosed with aggressive leukemia on a Western trip, a young man thought his insurance would cover an air ambulance ride home to North Carolina. Instead, he got stuck with an astronomical bill.

Memorial Hermann announced Friday that it has reached a four-year agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, restoring in-network access to hospitals, facilities, and providers in the Houston region.

The agreement allows nearly 200,000 patients to continue care at Memorial Hermann hospitals.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Memorial Hermann failed to reach an agreement this week which resulted in Memorial Hermann hospitals, surgery centers and some doctors now being out of network for thousands of patients with BCBSTX insurance plans.

There’s an impasse between hospital Memorial Hermann and insurance company Blue Cross, Blue Shield that could lead to thousands of patients in our area losing access to their doctors.

Insurers are scrambling to set up systems that reimburse Americans for rapid tests by Saturday deadline.

HARLINGEN — City Manager Dan Serna is facing challenges as he works to balance a proposed $49.7 million general fund budget coming with an $854,132 shortfall and a hefty $26 million cash reserve.

Some of America's biggest corporate names — from American Express to Facebook — said they are pausing their political donations in the wake of the deadly riot at the Capitol Building. By Monday morning, the number of big businesses halting political donations had become a flood. Among them are American Express, Airbnb, AT&T, Comcast, Dow, Google, Facebook, Ford Motors, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard and Microsoft. But the freeze on political donations reflects the widening fallout for Mr. Trump and his allies stemming from the Capitol protest. Citigroup confirmed Sunday that it is pausing all federal political donations for the first three months of 2021.