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Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Health and Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna collaborated to provide individuals health plan information and healthcare services at CVS pharmacies and CVS Minute Clinics nationwide.

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

U.S. News & World Report and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna's charitable foundation launched a project to research, analyze and report how communities with inventive policies and partnerships are changing citizens' health, The Hartford Business Journal reports.

In a letter to the House of Representatives, the American Hospital Association laid out its recommendations for improvements that can be made to the Medicare Advantage program.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act instituted major changes to providers' payment models and increased the need for strong coordination among healthcare organizations.

Managed care organization Philadelphia-based Health Partners Plans selected Eric Huss to serve as executive vice president of finance and administration.

Medicare Advantage enrollment has grown steadily since 2004, reaching its highest point this year, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

The number of Americans age 18 to 64 with a high-deductible plan increased from 26.3 percent in 2011 to 39.3 percent last year, according to a report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

Cincinnati-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio will no longer sell individual coverage on the state's ACA exchange by 2018, leaving residents in at least 18 counties without an exchange option next year, Dayton Daily News reports.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Recovery Centers of America, a provider of addiction treatment services, inked a coverage agreement with Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts for its Danvers, Mass.-based Boston Center for Addiction Treatment.