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Kennebunk, Maine-based Mark Farrah Associates, a provider of health plan market data and analysis tools, recently assessed enrollment trends since the onset of the Affordable Care Act's 2014 enrollment season in October 2013.

The CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced a new model to test strategies that aim to improve medication use among Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D.

Karen Ignagni started a new role Sept. 1 as president and CEO of New York City-based EmblemHealth, the parent company of Group Health Incorporated and the Health Plan of New York. In a recent interview with Crain's New York Business,…

The flood of health insurance mega-mergers announced this year has various implications. David Balto, an antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice, recently wrote a blog post in The Hill about the how these mergers could affect consumers.

Pennsylvania seniors caught in the middle of the feud between UPMC and Highmark will have another Medicare Advantage option this fall when UnitedHealthcare makes its Medicare Advantage plans widely available in Western Pennsylvania, according to a TribLive report.

New Jersey's dominant insurance company "schemed in secret" to intentionally exclude Catholic hospitals from a new plan, Sister Patricia Codey, president of the state's Catholic HealthCare Partnership said Monday, according to an NJ.com report.

Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health System and Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare are discontinuing their joint Medicare Advantage plan, according to the Associated Press.

Anthem, in its application to the Connecticut Insurance Department to acquire rival health insurer Cigna, said it has no plans to cut Cigna workers if the proposed deal goes through, according to a Hartford Courant report.

New York and federal regulators have ordered Health Republic Insurance of New York, a nonprofit insurance cooperative, to stop selling policies and to begin winding down business, according to a Bloomberg report.

This summer, the news was saturated with talks of mega-mergers among the big five health insurers. In early July, Aetna agreed to buy Humana, and Anthem inked a deal with Cigna that same month.