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The Maryland Insurance Administration approved three investors' acquisition of Baltimore-based Evergreen Health Wednesday.

The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.

Varnville, S.C.-based Hampton Regional Medical Center inked a network contract with Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare, according to a news release obtained by The Hampton County Guardian.

San Francisco-based Omada Health, a digital behavioral medicine provider, received $50 million in a recent fundraising round led by Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna.

Cleveland Clinic will offer a joint health plan with New York City-based Oscar Health, marking the clinic's entrance into the health insurance market and Oscar's expansion into Ohio.

St. Louis-based Centene Corp. will offer health plans on ACA exchanges in Kansas, Missouri and Nevada in 2018, and will expand its exchange presence in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, Texas and Washington.

Baton Rouge, La.-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana appointed Vindell Washington, MD, CMO.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna may offer individual plans on Nevada's 2018 ACA exchange after pulling its remaining plans from the exchanges in May, according to The Hill. 

Health insurance policyholders begged state regulators to deny Anthem's desired 33.8 percent average rate increase for 2018, labeling it excessive and unaffordable, according to Hartford Courant.

In 2015, 95 percent of the nation's children were insured, according to a Kids Count annual survey released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.