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Here are six jointly-owned health plans announced or launched since the beginning of 2017, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.

Older individuals with health coverage through the ACA federal and state marketplaces would see higher premiums than younger individuals with the same coverage, on average, under the Senate GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

Contract negotiations between Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota and Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota continue to stall ahead of the parties' July 5 deadline, Kare 11 reports.

Omaha-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska now owns Think Nebraska, an Omaha-based holding company behind a primary care clinic designed to keep patients from using expensive emergency departments and hospital beds, Live Well Nebraska reports.

Dublin-based Medtronic, a medical technology provider, signed an outcomes-based agreement with Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna.

Boston-based Minuteman Health, one of the last remaining nonprofit co-op health plans created under the ACA, will close Jan. 1, and plans to reopen as a for-profit business the same day.

After a decade of serving as president of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and Health Plan of the Northwest, Andrew McCulloch is retiring next month.

The Senate GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act draft, released June 22, could spark mixed credit implications for health insurers, according to Fitch Ratings.

David Cordani, CEO of Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, sold 153,168 company stocks June 19 for a total of $26.1 million, according to a Nasdaq report.

The Kellogg School of Management at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University will hold a panel about two recently blocked insurance mega-mergers: Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana.