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First announced in 2017, the joint-venture health plan between Allina Health in Minneapolis and Aetna hit a milestone in its first quarter of operations: more than 12,000 enrollees.

UPMC no longer plans to require patients with Medicare Advantage coverage through Highmark to pay for services in advance once consent decrees between the Pittsburgh-based rivals expire July 1, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  

America's Health Insurance Plans released a state-by-state report on the role health plans play nationwide.

Here are the 10 largest commercial, Medigap, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid health plans by number of covered lives, according to a report from America's Health Insurance Plans.

Scott Serota, president and CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association for nearly two decades, will retire at the end of 2020.

OptumCare, the healthcare delivery unit of UnitedHealth Group, won't own inpatient care or post-acute care services, the health insurer's CEO said during an annual strategy conference, according to Business Insider.

Humana wants to do for healthcare what Netflix did for home entertainment.

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will create a medical partnership, according to My Central Jersey.

UnitedHealth Group requested that the U.S. Supreme Court uphold its billing tactic of offsetting overpayments made to out-of-network providers from some of its health plans by withholding payments to the same provider from its different health plans, according to Bloomberg…

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, the state health department and the insurance commissioner's office established a partnership June 3 to help more Wisconsinites enroll in health insurance on HealthCare.gov, according to Channel 3000, a news station based in Madison, Wis.