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Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare uses two types of value-based contracts, but Lee Newcomer, MD, senior vice president of oncology and genetics at the insurer, told AJMC one outperforms the other.

Chambersburg, Pa.-based Summit Health and Humana in Louisville, Ky., contracted to allow Humana's Medicare customers in-network access to Summit Health's facilities and providers.

Las Vegas-based SilverSummit Healthplan, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene, will offer its Ambetter ACA marketplace product in Nevada next year, filling all counties lacking an individual exchange product.

The Texas Senate approved a controversial bill that restricts insurance coverage for women seeking abortions, according to the Texas Tribune.

Indianapolis-based Anthem will pull its products from the ACA marketplace in Virginia next year and scale back its offerings in Washington and Scott counties, as well as Bristol, Va., for 2018, according to a Forbes report.

The Trump administration pushed back the deadline for insurers to file final rates for 2018 ACA exchange plans in most states until Sept. 5, AHA News reports.

Three of the five major commercial payers saw their stock prices fall last week.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna concluded a public offering of $1 billion in senior notes Aug. 10.

Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel Medical Center and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore inked a three-year in-network contract Aug. 4.

Amid a rate negotiation deadlock, Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System offered to continue in-network recognition of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's ACA exchange policyholders Thursday; however, BCBSNC quickly rejected the proposal.