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For 2014, health plans reimbursed customers $478 million in rebates as a consequence of the Medical Loss Ratio provision in the Affordable Care Act, equating to approximately $129 per benefiting family, according to a data aggregation from Mark Farrah Associates. 

BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona and Tucson, Ariz.-based Carondelet Health Network have signed a new four-year contract, ending a dispute that could have caused the insurer's customers to lose in-network access at Carondelet facilities, according to a the Arizona Daily Star.

Although open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act ends Jan. 31, the enrollment period has already seen a plethora of both recurring and first-time issues.

New York is the first state in the U.S. to make pregnancy a "qualifying life event," allowing pregnant women to enroll in health insurance at any time through the state health exchange, rather than just during the three-month annual enrollment…

Currently, health insurers' Medicare physician directories that inaccurately include non-Medicare providers are merely an inconvenience for consumers. However, beginning in 2016, insurers can incur costly fines for such mistakes, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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