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Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health will sell its health plan to Evolent Health, a Washington, D.C.-based value-based care platform.

Uber is making efforts to help its contract workers sign up for health coverage under the ACA, according to Reuters.

The first four days of ACA open enrollment saw 601,000 people register for coverage, almost double the amount of signups from the same period last year.

Insurers called for revisions to a Massachusetts bill proposing price regulations for the state's highest-performing hospitals Tuesday, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Federal investigators claimed several companies administering small business health plans failed to pay more than $26 million in medical bills.

Community Health Plan of Washington hired Keith Brown, MD, to serve as CMO and Patty Jones, RN, as senior vice president of health services.

Humana raised the number of employees affected by layoffs or voluntary buyouts to 2,700, up from initial projections of 2,450, Louisville Business First reports.

Representatives from some of Massachusetts' biggest employers called on the CEOs of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and Anthem to end a monthslong feud over reimbursement rates, according to a Hartford Courant report.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave her first major speech on Medicaid Tuesday, promising to reduce federal oversight of the program and restore it to what she sees as its original intent — a partnership between states and the federal government.