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Health insurer Anthem has recently hired a slew of former Apple employees, possibly to help the company become more user-friendly, according to CNBC.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said it supports various approaches to stop surprise medical bills, including benchmarking.

Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield named William Fiser Jr., MD, its new medical director, according to Arkansas Business.

Health insurers in Maine will face a new law in September that may change how they conduct medical reviews, according to ThinkAdvisor.

Parents working in the private sector are increasingly enrolling eligible children into federal health insurance programs like Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Bridges Health Partners, a seven-hospital clinically integrated network, entered into an ACO agreement with Aetna, the companies announced July 9.

Cigna and Express Scripts completed their $67 billion combination in December, forming a healthcare giant with $140 billion in revenue. Express Scripts Chief Technology Officer Phil Finucane is one of the key players in the integration process.

EBoca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, recently acquired by Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida, is no longer in UnitedHealthcare's provider network, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

About 8.3 million children on government health insurance programs could lose their coverage under an immigration rule proposed by the Trump administration, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. 

Scan Health Plan, one of the country's largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage insurers, made two appointments to its board of directors.