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A new HHS analysis found individual health plan premiums have doubled since 2013, the year before various market reforms were enacted under the ACA.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Mo.) will not sell individual ACA health plans in the payer's 32-county service area in Missouri and Kansas for 2018.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health's Arizona hospitals are no longer in Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net's network following unresolved disputes about reimbursement rates, according to The Arizona Republic. 

Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System extended its relationship with UnitedHealthcare, a subsidiary of Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group, to include Medicare Advantage policyholders, according to AL.com.

More than one-third of millennials have declined a job offer either fully or partially based on health insurance benefits, according to a survey by Anthem.

The number of uninsured Americans has decreased by millions since 2010, although little change occurred between 2015 and 2016, according to new data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

Chicago-based Blue Cross Blue Shield Association penned a message to members outlining its wishes for the GOP's health reform proposal.

Albuquerque-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico saw a 62 percent decrease in emergency department visits for Medicaid beneficiaries under a house-call initiative established in January 2016, according to Albuquerque Journal.

Atlanta-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia filed preliminary plans to offer ACA individual health plans in all of Georgia's 159 counties for 2018, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

San Francisco-based Blue Cross of California has the largest market share of insurers participating in California's ACA health insurance marketplace, Covered California, according to a California Healthline report.