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Health insurance startup Oscar Health filed plans to offer individual marketplace coverage in six new markets next year, bringing its total expansion to nine states and 14 markets in 2019, the company said June 21.

For the fourth consecutive year, customers named Kaiser Permanente as the No. 1 health plan based on experience, according to Forrester's 2018 Consumer Experience Index.

Michael Dudley, former senior vice president of Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare and CEO of its Optima Health plan, served as an executive with Sentara for 21 years. He previously spent 19 years at Kaiser Permanente, and across nearly four decades…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic agreed to work directly with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to decide what emerging technology BCBSM will cover.

Anthem closed its acquisition of the nation's largest provider of palliative care services for an undisclosed amount.

Quest Analytics, a provider of network access services to health plans and insurance regulators, acquired provider data management platform BetterDoctor June 18.

Here are four companies that have recenlty agreed to a transaction with UnitedHealth Group:

Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans in aggregate gained $2.3 billion in 2017 as a result of new federal tax law, according to a report from ratings agency A.M. Best.

Despite openly opposing a proposed deal between Aetna and Humana in 2016, the American Medical Association has not asked antitrust regulators to block CVS Health's proposed $69 billion bid for Aetna, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Jepsen.

Aetna asked a district court to require its former chief Medicare actuary to return documents used to accuse CVS Caremark of overbilling the federal government for prescriptions since 2007, according to a recent court filing.