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Dublin-based Medtronic, a medical technology provider, signed an outcomes-based agreement with Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna.

Boston-based Minuteman Health, one of the last remaining nonprofit co-op health plans created under the ACA, will close Jan. 1, and plans to reopen as a for-profit business the same day.

After a decade of serving as president of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and Health Plan of the Northwest, Andrew McCulloch is retiring next month.

The Senate GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act draft, released June 22, could spark mixed credit implications for health insurers, according to Fitch Ratings.

David Cordani, CEO of Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, sold 153,168 company stocks June 19 for a total of $26.1 million, according to a Nasdaq report.

The Kellogg School of Management at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University will hold a panel about two recently blocked insurance mega-mergers: Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana.

Clermont, Fla.-based Primary Partners, a network of central Florida primary care and specialty physicians, and Jacksonville-based Florida Blue will implement an accountable provider program targeted at improving care coordination.

Insurers participating on the ACA exchanges lost about 7 percent to 9 percent of premiums in 2016, down slightly from 10.1 percent of premiums a year prior, according to a McKinsey & Company analysis.

A provision in the Senate GOP's Better Care and Reconciliation Act could potentially result in a pay boost for health insurance executives, reports The Washington Post.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health Plan has maintained a steady presence in Pennsylvania's individual ACA exchange, despite other insurers leaving the state's marketplace.