Payer

The Court of Federal Claims upheld the U.S. Department of Defense's $58 billion military healthcare contract bids with Louisville, Ky.-based Humana and Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net, rejecting Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group's challenge of the deal, Law360 reports.

Unified Partners CEO Steve Doletzky said political chaos and scandal are keeping politicians from focusing on some of the issues impacting the healthcare industry.

Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, based in Albuquerque, named Daniel Sorrells its permanent president, according to an Albuquerque Business First report.

Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health and Cincinnati-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield signed a value-based contract for services offered in the state's Miami Valley.

Insurance giant Aetna has opened its first Mindfulness Center at its headquarters in Hartford, Conn., according to HartfordBusiness.com.

Several U.S. areas are at risk of having one or no health plans operating on the 2018 ACA exchanges, due in part to uncertainty surrounding the future of the ACA's cost-sharing reductions — which compensate payers for subsidizing costs for…

Insurance regulators nationwide are offering filing deadline extensions and other flexibilities to incentivize health insurers to remain in the 2018 ACA exchanges, according to The Hill.

A study released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed a decline in insurer participation on the ACA health insurance exchanges since 2015.

Illinois will conduct a broad market examination of Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois' compliance with consumer protection regulations, a move it hasn't pursued since 1990, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Here are 35 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers reported by Becker's Hospital Review since Jan. 1.