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Third-quarter net income at health insurer Aetna increased nearly 4 percent, from $499.2 million in 2012 to $518.6 million this year.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has said calling a special legislative session to consider expanding the state's Medicaid program is "out of the question," according to a news release.

Next year, Medicare beneficiaries will not see their Part B premiums rise, according to a news release from CMS.

Paul Levy, former president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author of the blog Not Running a Hospital, wrote a post comparing his health plan costs under Massachusetts' Health Connector and the Patient Protection and…

Monthly premiums for health plans purchased through the health insurance exchanges will vary widely across the nation, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

North Carolina might have to expand Medicaid whether state lawmakers want to or not, Gov. Pat McCrory said this week in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, according to a report from The Charlotte Observer.

America's Health Insurance Plans CEO Karen Ignagni has advocated for a two-year delay of a health insurance tax included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Bloomberg report.

Simon Stevens, executive vice president and global health president at health insurer UnitedHealth Group, has been named to lead England's National Health Service, according to a report from The Guardian.

Gov. Phil Bryant has issued an executive order to force Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi to reinstate 10 hospitals owned by Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates into its network, according to a report from The Clarion-Ledger.

Third-quarter net income at health insurer WellPoint declined by 5.1 percent, from $691.2 million in the third quarter of 2012 to $656.2 million this year.