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Leaders from the Colorado Medical Society are asking the state government to intensely scrutinize the merger between insurance giants Anthem and Cigna, according to the Denver Business Journal.

As of 2017, UnitedHealthcare will no longer offer coverage on Illinois' Affordable Care Act marketplace, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Federal regulators have fined Clover Health $106,095 for misleading consumers about their out-of-network benefits.

UnitedHealth will depart from California's Affordable Care Act exchange at the end of 2016, according to California Healthline.

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna have partnered to offer fully-insured and self-insured commercial insurance products to employers and consumers in 14 counties in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.

InHealth Mutual, the struggling health insurance co-op that provides coverage to nearly 22,000 Ohioans, has been taken over by the state. According to the Ohio Department of Insurance, the co-op doesn't have enough money to cover claims and stay in…

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

Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest insurer, is joining the ranks of other payers looking to raise their premium prices on Affordable Care Act exchange plans, according to the Tribune Review.

Losses incurred during the first few years of the Affordable Care Act's implementation are driving some big health plans to seek substantial premium increases in 2017 for individual plans sold through the insurance exchanges of more than a dozen states,…

The American Medical Association issued its full support of Missouri's decision to bar the Aetna-Humana merger for certain insurance products.