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The Campaign for Consumer Choice vehemently opposes the health insurance industry's mega-mergers. But its funding comes from an unlikely source: the hospital industry, according to STAT.

A new bill requesting equal insurance coverage of oral and intravenous chemotherapy drugs has passed in the Michigan Senate, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Clover Health, a San Francisco-based health insurance startup, has obtained $160 million in Series C venture funding, setting its total raised in venture funding at almost $300 million, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Antitrust approvals for the $48 billion proposed merger between Anthem and Cigna could be delayed or derailed by squabbles between the two insurers, according to a series of letters reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Premera Blue Cross has reported a whopping $117.5 million loss on individual health plans in 2015, reports Puget Sound Business Journal.

The Idaho Department of Insurance wants insurers to let some charities pay costs and premiums for people who lack the money to pay premiums, co-payments and other out-of-pocket expenses, reports Idaho Statesman.

Cigna provided details Thursday on a plan to help curb the opioid problem in the United States. A major element of Cigna's efforts is a plan to decrease the use of opioids by 25 percent among the health insurer's own…

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

With its recently announced departure from New Jersey's Affordable Care Act marketplace, UnitedHealth has officially dropped from the exchanges in 27 states, according to Bloomberg.

West Virginia had the greatest percentage drop in adults without health insurance from 2013 to 2015, according to findings from the CDC.