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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.

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.

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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.

More than six months after proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers collapsed, four economists testifying in the cases met in Chicago to discuss the deals' sticking points and implications.

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