Payer

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

Medicare beats out all private insurers in a recent peer60 report of the best and worst of the payer market.

In response to an open records request, Connecticut officials stated any unreleased documents regarding a proposed Anthem-Cigna merger will remain confidential, the International Business Times reported.

The Obama administration is calling for a salient limit on short-term health insurance plans as an increasing number of consumers are purchasing plans that do not meet Affordable Care Act requirements, Kaiser Health News reported.

America's Health Insurance Plans, the top health insurance lobby, will revamp its membership fees for the first time since 2003, The Hill reported.

Soaring pharmaceutical costs and less healthy policy holders have caused many insurers to request significant premium rate increases for health plans sold on the Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2017, reports Politico.

Ellenville (N.Y.) RegionalHospital, an affiliate of HealthAlliance of the HudsonValley in Kingston, N.Y., has confirmed the hospital is an in-network facility for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield policy holders, reports Daily Freeman.  HealthAlliance and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield were unable…

Health insurance giant Humana is planning on adding over 170 new jobs in Phoenix, according to AZ Business Magazine.

National and Missouri-based advocacy groups are asking Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance John Huff to publicly complete the final review of the Aetna-Humana merger, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Medical Mutual of Ohio and Cleveland-based The MetroHealth System will roll out a new health plan which both parties say will offer premiums with rates 15 percent lower than market competitors, reports Crain's Cleveland Business.