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Huston-based Memorial Hermann Health Plan will stop providing individual HMO and PPO health insurance plans Dec. 31, according to Click2Huston.com.

These 11 contract resolutions and dissolutions occurred between payers and providers in June, beginning with the most recent.

Fort Stockton, Texas-based Pecos County Memorial Hospital and Richardson-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas are negotiating their in-network agreement, according to The Fort Stockton Pioneer.

The following payers made headlines this past week, beginning with the most recent.

Indianapolis-based Anthem is continuing its ACA exchange withdrawal and leaving the market in all but three Nevada counties in 2018, Bloomberg reports.

St. Paul, Minn.-based Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare and Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota struck a three-year contract extension.

Large for-profit health insurers can still run profitable Medicare and Medicaid businesses depsite whether senators pass the Republican healthcare bill this summer, analysts told CNBC.

Cleveland Clinic said CareSource, a Dayton, Ohio-based Medicaid managed care plan, may end its in-network relationship with the clinic, according to a cleveland.com report.

CMS predicts 49 counties across Ohio, Indiana and Missouri will lack an insurer offering health plans on ACA exchanges in 2018, up from a previous estimate of 47.

Louisville, Ky.-based Humana appointed Sam Deshpande senior vice president and chief risk officer, a newly created position.