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What if your job paid you to sleep? Health insurer Aetna is doing just that, according to CNBC.

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent. 

Under a new proposal that would charge fees for health plans bought on the federal exchanges and impose penalties on those who miss payments, Ohio lawmakers have predicted up to 650,000 state residents could lose Medicaid coverage, reports The Columbus…

Robert Sheehy, former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has co-founded a health insurance startup called Bright Health.

Independence Health Group, the parent of Independence Blue Cross, reported a net loss of $54.4 million in 2015, down from net income of $69.2 million the year prior, according to The Inquirer.

Anthem Blue Cross is eyeing a new partnership with Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health and California-based Community Medical Centers in Fresno and Clovis in which it would offer more services to local Medi-Cal patients, reports Hanford Sentinel.

This winter, Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health — a health insurance co-op — planned to make University of Chicago Medicine out-of-network for its enrollees effective March 1. But now the two organizations have repaired their relationship, according to Crain's Chicago…

As one part of Anthem's proposed acquisition of Cigna, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved Anthem's request to purchase Cigna's Florida-based affiliates, according to the Insurance Journal.

Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program may not be as successful at enrolling African American and Latino children as is often thought, according to The Washington Post.

Numerous health insurers — including BCBS of Illinois, Oscar Health and UnitedHealthcare — are cutting or altogether eliminating agents' commissions, according to USA Today.