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Analysts predict UnitedHealth Group will post a year-over-year increase in earnings and higher revenues for the third quarter, according to a report from Zacks Equity Research.

Patients may lose in-network access to Mission Health if their health insurer Cigna ends its relationship with the Asheville, N.C.-based hospital, according to local ABC affiliate 13 WLOS.

Here are 10 articles recently published by Becker's Hospital Review on national and state news concerning Medicare Advantage:

Columbus-based OhioHealth is now back in network with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Medicare Advantage plans after a contract dispute in 2018, the organizations said in a press release shared with Becker's Hospital Review.

Two executives at Humana assumed more responsibilities within the company, the health insurer said Oct. 7.

Patrick Conway, MD, the former CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, was found guilty of driving while impaired and misdemeanor child abuse after a car crash in June, according to The News & Observer.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and global primary care provider Sanitas Medical Center debuted their first of 10 advanced primary care centers set to open in the Dallas and Houston regions, the companies said Oct. 4.

Medicare overpaid hospitals about $1.3 billion in 2015 for the government's Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

West Virginia University Health System, a nine-hospital system in Morgantown, will launch a Medicare Advantage product with a health plan it's in the process of acquiring, according to The Intelligencer.

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group, laid off an undisclosed number of employees in Duluth, Minn., according to the Duluth News Tribune.