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There's only one individual health insurer left in Alaska: Premera Alaska. The penultimate insurer left standing, Moda Health, withdrew from the market last week. Now it's up to Premera to save Alaska's individual market, according to Alaska Public Media.

Numerous health insurers have recently outlined concerns about the Affordable Care Act exchanges. But the executive director of California's marketplace said UnitedHealth Group should take responsibility and stop assigning blame to the federal law, according to NPR.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen has a partnership in place with Verily — Google's life sciences arm — and Biogen's vice president of corporate development and strategy, Adam Koppel, recently weighed in on that partnership and Google's business model, according to MedCityNews.

Technical problems with the state's Medicaid eligibility system and a transfer of Medicaid management between state agencies has left thousands of Kansans without coverage for months, reports KCUR.

Flint-based HealthPlus in Michigan and Health Alliance Plan in Detroit have secured state and federal regulatory approval for the plans' proposed merger, reports Crain's Detroit Business.

In early July, Hartford, Conn.-based health insurer Aetna proposed to acquire Louisville, Ky.-based Humana in a $37 billion deal. Now officials are determining what the structure of Humana will look like once the acquisition is completed, according to Louisville Business…

Now that this year's open enrollment period has closed, Aetna has expressed apprehension in its future participation on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to The Hill.

After Aetna, the third largest health insurer in the country, released its 2015 fourth quarter financial results yesterday, the company's CEO maintained a positive outlook, according to CNBC.

Obama administration officials made one last push for the uninsured to sign up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges before the open enrollment deadline Jan. 31, according to The Hill.

After open enrollment closed Jan. 31, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina said it expects to lose over $400 million on its Affordable Care Act business for 2014 and 2015, according to The News & Observer.