Phoenix-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and St. Louis-based Centene's Ambetter arm filed plans with the Arizona Department of Insurance to participate on the state's 2018 ACA exchange, The Arizona Republic reports.
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Denver-based Melody Health Insurance acquired Alamosa-based Colorado Choice Health Plans June 1 after gaining regulatory approval from the Colorado Division of Insurance and Attorney General's Office.
Indianapolis-based Anthem is planning several moves following its failed $54 billion merger attempt with Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, according to an Indianapolis Business Journal report.
Based in a suburban Minneapolis, Medica is a small, nonprofit payer that covers roughly 700,000 people, with 137,000 of those in counties where it is the only insurer on the marketplace, according to Vox.
In the wake of Anthem's exit from Ohio's 2018 marketplace, a move that will leave over 10,000 residents throughout 18 counties without insurance options, state lawmakers want solutions to provide people with affordable healthcare, according to Governing.
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While 12.2 million individuals enrolled in a health plan through the ACA exchanges in 2017, only 10.3 million individuals paid their first premium as of March 15, according to CMS' 2017 Effectuated Enrollment Snapshot.
California's health insurance exchange will instruct insurers to increase premium prices if the federal government doesn't confirm it will pay the ACA's cost-sharing reductions by mid-August, according to a California Healthline report.
Jacksonville-based Florida Blue intends to offer individual policies on the state's ACA exchange in all 67 counties next year, according to The News-Press.
Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare and University of Chicago Medicine have yet to reach an agreement to keep the medical center and its physicians in the insurer's network, which could ultimately affect 8,000 patients, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Americans who rate their own health as "poor" are more than twice as likely to buy health plans from the ACA exchanges than those who self-rate their health as "excellent," according to a recent Gallup poll.