Payer

Des Moines, Iowa-based Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield will leave Iowa's ACA health insurance exchange effective Jan. 1, 2018.

A Colorado House committee OK'd a bill proposing financial assistance for residents purchasing health insurance through the ACA exchange with incomes above the limit to qualify for federal subsidies, Aspen Daily News reports.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and California-based Landmark Health, a national medical group, collaborated on a home healthcare program for the insurer's Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, telegram.com reports.

Indianapolis-based Anthem is contemplating leaving a "high percentage" of the 144 rating regions where it sells health plans through federal and state-based exchanges established under the ACA, Reuters reports. 

Here are 12 contract impasses and agreements that took place between payers and providers in March.

Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare reached a contract impasse that could affect 70,000 policyholders, Dayton Daily News reports.

Gov. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., vetoed a measure to expand the state's Medicaid program under the ACA Thursday, Star Tribune reports.

Anthem's appellate arguments regarding its blocked merger with Cigna struck a chord with Becker's Hospital Review readers this week.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana entered a four-year value-based agreement.

Indianapolis-based Anthem BlueCross BlueShield in Colorado and Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health reached a contract agreement March 30, a Centura spokesperson confirmed with Becker's Hospital Review.