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Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Health System agreed to a multiyear agreement with Aetna, an Aetna spokesperson confirmed with Becker's Hospital Review.

ACA premiums are expected to rise by an average of 3.6 percent in 2019, according to an analysis by Avalere and the Associated Press.

The Justice Department is approaching a formal approval of proposed mergers between CVS Health and Aetna, as well as Cigna and Express Scripts, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.

Fitch Ratings downgraded Cigna to "BBB" from "A-" due to the health insurer's financing of up to $24 billion in new debt to buy Express Scripts.

As payers increasingly turn to alternate modes of care delivery as a way to keep patients with low-acuity conditions out of expensive emergency departments, recent evidence suggests that urgent care centers and retail clinics — not telehealth — appear to…

CMS wrongly sent termination notices to more than 38,000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Star Tribune.

Cigna appointed Gina Papush to its newly created global chief data and analytics officer position Sept. 4.

Medicaid paid for about 2 in 5 births, or 43 percent of all deliveries, in 2017, according to recent data from the CDC.

WellCare Health Plans, a Tampa, Fla.-based health insurer specializing in managed Medicaid and Medicare Advantage policies, completed its acquisition of Meridian Health Sept. 1.

While the U.S. remains one of the only high-income countries without universal health insurance coverage, the ACA managed to improve care for residents across the nation, with more than 20 million people gaining insurance coverage, Newsweek reports.