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UnitedHealth Group plans to tie $75 billion of its payments to value-based care contracts by the end of 2020, up from $64 billion in 2017, according to the insurer's annual report on value-based care progress.

Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in Ohio's General Assembly aimed at stopping Anthem and other health insurers from denying coverage to members using the emergency department under certain circumstances, cleveland.com reports.

Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Mass., is alerting 70,000 members to an inadvertent disclosure of their health plan information after it was exposed in the window of envelopes mailed out by one of its vendors, the insurer told Becker's Hospital…

Phoenix-based Banner Health and Aetna named Joanne Mizell COO of their joint health plan, AZ Big Media reports.

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources will no longer be in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas' network if both parties don't reach a new agreement by a March 31, the insurer told Becker's Hospital Review.

Two Democratic senators inked a letter to Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini requesting the insurer answer questions about why a former medical director said he never looked at patients' medical records when deciding to review or deny claims, CNN reports.

Clover Health, an insurance startup backed by Google's parent company Alphabet, diminished its losses from $35 million in 2016 to $22 million in 2017, according to Bloomberg.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, which operates six hospitals across the state, is embarking on a joint venture with Watertown-based Tufts Health Plan of Massachusetts to form a health insurance company, according to the Hartford Courant.

The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight issued new guidance concerning how individuals enroll in health plans on HealthCare.gov, Katie Keith writes in Health Affairs' ACA Round-Up.

Humana's top executives sold more than $12 million in shares Feb. 26, Louisville Business First reports, citing Securities and Exchange Commission filings.