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Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan will pull its individual policies from Michigan's 2018 health insurance exchange.

Chicago-based Blue Cross Blue Shield Association claimed $68,605 in impermissible postretirement benefit payments, according to a report by HHS' Office of Inspector General.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna is slated to reap $9.4 million in tax breaks as it moves its headquarters to New York City by October 2018, Reuters reports.

Oscar Health, a New York City-based health insurance startup, rolled out its campaign for the ACA marketplace's 2018 open enrollment Sept. 18.

Employers estimate health benefits payments will increase an average 4.3 percent per employee in 2018, after accounting for payer switches and increased deductibles, according to a recent Mercer report.

Warby Parker will begin accepting UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored and individual vision plans next year, which marks the first time the New York City-based eyeglass and sunglass retailer is accepting vision insurance.

Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, a Nashville, Tenn.-based organization of physicians, health systems and employers, rolled out an accountable care product with Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna.

Board members of Idaho's individual health insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, flagged Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System's contract to counsel exchange enrollees as a possible conflict of interest, KIVI-TV reports.

Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Medical Group/Southwest Medical Associates will end its evergreen contract with Presbyterian Health Plan, also in Albuquerque, Jan. 1, according to an Albuquerque Journal report.

President and CEO of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System Ron Paulus, MD, told Citizen-Times negotiations between the health system and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in Durham are nonexistent.