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CVS Health is preparing to defend its $70 billion integration with Aetna during an unusual three-day proceeding over the companies' settlement with the Department of Justice's antitrust division, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Vermont's stricter review of health insurance rate increases is weakening the finances of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, according to an AM Best report cited by ThinkAdvisor.

A contract dispute between Empire BlueCross BlueShield and Westchester Medical Center Health in Valhalla, N.Y., is due to WMC's proposed 30 percent rate hike, the insurer told the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.

In a rare move, Humana quieted rumors that the health insurer is pursuing a transaction with Centene, according to a June 3 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association wants Congress to establish a payment benchmark for out-of-network clinicians, such as emergency room physicians, as part of a legislative solution to surprise medical bills, according to Bloomberg Law.

On May 31st, 2019, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced that it would be expanding its LexisNexis® Active Insights platform with the addition of Death in Network intelligence, a new event that will help insurers engage with their policyholders when life insurance is…

Over the course of about seven months of negotiations, WellCare Health Plans rejected several of Centene's acquisition bids, which at one point hit a high of $380 per share before a market downturn, according to a joint proxy statement filed…

The CEO of Cigna threatened to leave Connecticut if the state supported a bill to create a public health insurance option, a move that killed the legislation, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo said May 29, according to the Hartford Courant.

Allina | Aetna, the joint health plan created by Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Aetna, enrolled roughly 12,000 people in its first quarter of operations, according to a regulatory filing cited by the Star Tribune.

Passport Health Plan, a health insurance company controlled by healthcare providers in Louisville, Ky., will sell 70 percent of its stake to health plan administrator Evolent Health, according to local news station WDBR.