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Minneapolis-based health insurance startup Bright Health secured $160 million in a Series B funding round.

The U.S. Comptroller General and U.S. Government Accountability Office head appointed Dana Gelb Safran, chief performance measurement and improvement officer and senior vice president of enterprise analytics at Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, to serve on the Medicare…

Omaha-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska will ditch its final two ACA-compliant individual health plans in 2018, according to a Live Well Nebraska report.

Saint Francis Muskogee (Okla.) and Tulsa-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma ended their interim in-network agreement May 31, according to a Muskogee Phoenix report. 

San Antonio-based Allegian Health Plans, a wholly-owned managed care subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, divested 20,000 Medicare and commercial group members to Richardson-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.

Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna appointed three individuals to lead three of its U.S. markets.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana amended their multiyear provider network agreement to take effect June 1.

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

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna intends to reach an agreement by early summer to move its headquarters, according to a Hartford Courant report.

A recent Morning Consult survey found Americans' opinion of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna did not significantly change following their decisions to exit the ACA exchanges for 2018.