Massachusetts has the lowest percentage of uninsured adults of any state in the U.S., according to analysis by WalletHub.
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Albuquerque-based Molina Healthcare of New Mexico will fill 250 contact center jobs during the next year, according to an Albuquerque Business First report.
The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation dropped their early projection of the number of individual marketplace enrollees in 2026 by 7 million, according to a recent report.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri in St. Louis said it stopped covering outpatient MRIs and CT scans at hospitals without prior authorization due to "enormous" price variations, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Shares of Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group reached a 52-week high of $200.8 Sept. 13, according to a Nasdaq report.
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Between 2015 and 2016, 14 states witnessed statistically significant increases in average deductibles for individual coverage under employer health plans, according to SHADAC, a health policy research center affiliated with Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.
Sixty-three counties nationwide are expected to lack a health insurer selling policies on the 2018 ACA exchanges as of Sept. 13, CMS said.
Indianapolis-based Anthem is contemplating its 2018 participation in some states' ACA marketplaces as filing deadlines approach later this month, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The U.S. uninsured rate dropped 0.3 percentage points between 2015 and 2016 to 8.8 percent, or 28.1 million Americans, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.