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Health insurer Aetna has announced plans to acquire Chicago-based Bswift, an online private exchange provider, for $400 million, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.

Roughly 42,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in North Carolina have received letters with incorrect rates, according The Charlotte Observer.

Insurers that plan to sell 2015 health plans on the federal and state exchanges are predicting at least 20 percent more customers will sign up during the open enrollment period, according to a Reuters report.

Here are the top seven insurers that were rated best overall by physicians, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.

UnitedHealthcare has announced plans to offer insurance policies on Alabama's federal- operated exchange this year after opting out in 2013, according to an Insurance Journal report.

On Dec. 1, Medicare patients with ALS could lose access to technological advances that allow them to better communicate, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Hackensack (N.J.) UMC received more than $1.7 million in overpayments from Medicare from April 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012, according to a recent OIG audit report.

Privately insured Americans utilized fewer medical services in 2013 than the previous year, yet healthcare spending increased, according to the recently released 2013 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report.

Indiana's plan to expand its Medicaid program could end up costing the state billions more than expected and have a long-term negative effect on its economy, Naomi Lopez Bauman, director of health policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, writes in…

The most important quality physicians look for in an insurer is its reimbursement rate, according to a recent Medscape study of more than 6,300 physicians across 25 specialties.