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By selling its vision unit, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health could bring in approximately $2 billion to assuage its recent loses, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare have terminated a contract agreement for services provided to Medicaid patients, reports Albuquerque Journal.  

HHS announced Tuesday it will stabilize and fortify the Health Insurance Marketplace by targeting uninsured young adults to enroll.

Seven Democratic senators urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to block the Aetna-Humana and Cigna-Anthem mergers, with one lawmaker calling the proposed deals "job-killers," according to the Hartford Courant. 

UnitedHealthcare has dropped coverage with Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Group six months in advance of its exit from the state's Affordable Care Act market, according to The Record.

A California health insurance official signed off on Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna's $37 billion merger with Louisville, Ky.-based Humana after reaching an agreement with Aetna for certain conditions, California Healthline reported.

As high-deductible health plans become the norm among U.S. employers, many are beginning to explore different strategies to control medical plan costs, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

After reviewing Oregon payers' 2017 proposed insurance premium rates, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services forecast up to 32 percent rate increases for individuals purchasing plans on the state's marketplace, The Bulletin reported.

New York City-based health insurance startup Oscar Health was once lauded as a disrupter among its more traditional contemporaries. With its quirky branding and emphasis on simplicity, it was coined the "hipster" health insurance company poised to "make health insurance…

Kansas' Medicaid application backlog is four times greater than state officials thought, according to The Kansas City Star. Although previous reports said the state reduced its list of low-income residents waiting to be approved for Medicaid coverage to 3,480, the…