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Maine's health insurance co-op, Community Health Options, had to utilize 13 percent less of its reserves than it thought it would need to cover losses from the first quarter of this year, according to the Portland Press Herald.

Medicaid reimbursement to nursing homes in Wisconsin may be the worst in the country, a recent study found, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Integrated Health Partners of Southern California, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Health Center Partners of Southern California, has launched its first contract with insurer Molina Healthcare.

UnitedHealth is leaving one more state's Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2017, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.

Blue Cross Blue Shield reinstated Jacksonville, N.C.-based Onslow Memorial Hospital as part of the insurer's low-priced network May 1, reports Jacksonville Daily News.

Colorado legislators have approved a bill to evaluate whether the entire state should be treated as a single geographic district to alleviate the large disparity in premium prices across the state's regions, according to the Denver Post. Gov. John Hickenlooper…

UnitedHealthcare will no longer offer individual plans through Mayland's Affordable Care Act health exchange in 2017, while other large insurers in the state are seeking rate increases of up to 30 percent, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

After the open enrollment period on the Affordable Care Act marketplace closed in January, McKinsey's Center for U.S. Health System Reform closely analyzed the primary drivers of successful results throughout the first three years of the ACA exchange model.

People ages 21 and under and pregnant women who have been exposed to the water in Flint, Mich., may be eligible for a Medicaid expansion program, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced…

Four Massachusetts nonprofit health insurers lost money in the first quarter of 2016, and three of the four lost more in the first quarter of 2016 than they did in the same period of 2015, according to The Boston Globe.