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UnitedHealth Group and private equity firm Carlyle Group are front-runners in a bid for pharmacy benefits and behavioral health provider Magellan Health, an SVB Leerink analyst told Business Insider.

Healthcare-sharing ministries, which are religious organizations whose members help pay each other's medical bills, now cover more than a million people — up from about 200,000 before the ACA, according to The Wall Street Journal.  

Anthem entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the nation's largest independently held behavioral health organization, Beacon Health Options, the companies said June 6.

A federal judge wrapped up two days of hearings on CVS Health's $69 billion takeover of Aetna and scheduled more oral arguments on the deal in July, according to the CT Mirror.

Anthem Blue Cross agreed to a settlement over how it identifies, processes and resolves consumer complaints in California, according to The Sacramento Bee.  

Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System notified 40,000 patients that negotiations with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield have stalled and their coverage could be disrupted if a new agreement is not reached, according to the Albany Herald.

Some small business CEOs are arguing entrepreneurship would grow if health insurance was disconnected from employment benefits, according to Kaiser Health News.

California is set to become the first state to offer healthcare coverage to some adults living illegally in the country, according to USA Today.

Although the ACA aimed to stop health insurers from dropping members with little notice, tens of thousands of Americans are still experiencing this, according to California Healthline.

Here are the largest Medicare Advantage plans by number of covered lives in each state, according to a report from America's Health Insurance Plans.