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Innovation Health is a health plan partnership between Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System and insurance giant Aetna. Here are seven things to know about the company.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Theranos — a company that has shaken up the laboratory testing market — has teamed up with health insurer Capital BlueCross to provide Theranos' technology and laboratory services in Central Pennsylvania.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna would be required to pay Louisville, Ky.-based Humana $1 billion if Aetna's $37 billion deal to acquire Humana does not close by June 30, 2016, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Humana.

Three days after announcing it would be acquired by Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna, Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer Humana lowered its 2015 financial forecast, according to Reuters.

After Aetna's $37 billion purchase of Humana, executives said they plan to maintain or even increase employment in Louisville, Ky., according to a report in The Courier-Journal.

Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the "Baa3" rating on New England-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's bonds, affecting approximately $49 million of series 1998A fixed-rate bonds to be issued through the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority.

Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini believes his company's $37 billion deal to acquire health insurer Humana will pass antitrust review, allowing the transaction to close in the second half of 2016, according to Reuters.

Insurance premiums have become a new battleground in the fight against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with opponents pointing to surging premiums as a signal the Obama administration's signature healthcare reform is failing, and supporters defending that the…

Hartford, Conn.-based health insurer Aetna has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana in a deal valued at $37 billion.

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