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Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna and HealthCare Partners in El Segundo, Calif. — a division of DaVita Medical Group — will jointly offer Los Angeles-area employers health plans beginning April 1.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and New York City-based Quartet, a mission-driven technology company that integrates mental health into primary care, expanded their services to two Pennsylvania counties — Butler and Westmoreland.

Aetna entered into agreements Wednesday for the accelerated repurchase of $3.3 billion of the company's outstanding common stock after the Hartford, Conn.-based insurer's board authorized the repurchase of an additional $4 billion worth of the company's stock last week.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia expedited Indianapolis-based Anthem's appeal of a district court's order to block its proposed $54 billion merger with Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna.

Eight executives from Louisville, Ky.-based Humana sold a combined 323,648 shares of company stock on Tuesday for $66.4 million, according to the Courier-Journal.

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