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A federal judge ruled litigation against Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers showed how they do business may be an automatic violation of federal antitrust regulations, according to The Wall Street Journal.  

Since its acquisition of 250 Las Vegas-area physicians in 2008, UnitedHealth Group has steadily expanded its physician workforce to shield itself from competitors and hospitals, according to a Bloomberg report.

As a string of big-ticket acquisitions spring up across the health insurance industry, one major insurer, Anthem, is sitting on the sidelines — a move that could pay off for them financially, The Wall Street Journal argues. 

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will use $50 million in savings under new federal tax law to lower members' premiums and improve consumer tools used to find in-network physicians and hospitals, according to the Times Free Press.

Humana increased the number of "healthy days" its employees experience by 1.8 million since 2012 under its "Bold Goal" project.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will roll out a platform to connect self-insured accounts with 1,000-plus employees to appropriate digital health tools July 1.

Recent changes to Medicare Advantage plans that expand service offerings may be prompting collaborations among retail giants like Walmart and Amazon with health insurers, according to Forbes.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan upended its decision to not pay for some anti-arthritis injections, according to the Detroit Free Press.

As lawmakers moved to eliminate the ACA's individual mandate penalty beginning in 2019, approximately half the American public believes ACA marketplaces are "collapsing," including six in ten of those with coverage purchased through these marketplaces, according to a Kaiser Family…

CMS is removing a star rating unit for Medicare Advantage plans, according to its 2019 Rate Announcement and Call Letter.