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Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina subsidiary PGBA, a Columbia, S.C.-based claims processing provider, is eliminating an unspecified number of positions, ABC 15 News reports.

Becker's Hospital Review reported these 10 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Oct. 3, beginning with the most recent.  

Tower Health in West Reading, Pa. — formerly Reading Health System — and Independence Blue Cross inked a three-year contract, effective immediately.

Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following executive moves since Sept. 25. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent. 

Forty-three percent of Americans buying individual health insurance purchase coverage outside of the ACA exchanges or have incomes above the threshold determining who gets subsidies to offset premium hikes, Kaiser Health News reports.

Two Boston-based Iora Health primary care practices joined Humana's Medicare Advantage network in Arizona.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is not in-network with any insurer selling individual coverage on Tennessee's 2018 exchange, according to a Tennessean report.

The 2018 open enrollment period for individuals purchasing health plans on the ACA's marketplaces begins Nov. 1. While the Kaiser Family Foundation states 49 percent of Americans get health insurance through their employers and 7 percent buy coverage on their…

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare Corp. sued Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield over allegations the insurer changed its emergency care reimbursement policies after the two failed to reach a provider agreement last week, according to a Connecticut Law Tribune report.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order later this week that would allow people to pool together and purchase group insurance plans, according to The New York Times.