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Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna will continue in-network access for Aetna members at Midland Memorial facilities, CBS 7 reports.

A proposed expansion of Louisville, Ky.-based Passport Health Plan — a Medicaid managed care organization — hinges on the future of the ACA, according to WDRB.

New York City-based startup Oscar Health will extend its ACA exchange presence in Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Tennessee and California for 2018.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based Medica, the only payer offering ACA exchange plans statewide in Iowa for 2018, seeks an average 43.5 percent rate increase for individual plans next year, Live Well Nebraska reports.

After much speculation, no Colorado insurers will leave the state's exchange next year, according to the  Denver Post.

Payers selling policies on the ACA exchanges garnered cost-sharing reduction payments from President Donald Trump's administration this month, amid speculation the subsidies —which offset the cost of providing discounted deductibles and copays to low-income ACA enrollees — could end, according…

Several families have filed lawsuits against commercial payers for refusing to pay for their children's wilderness therapy, a treatment similar to residential mental healthcare except programs are administered outdoors, according to The Boston Globe.

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, the state's largest insurer, is preparing to return to the ACA exchange in 2018 despite the unpredictability surrounding the healthcare law, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Premiums for the most popular health plans sold on the ACA exchanges are tracking an average 18 percent higher than last year, according to an Avalere analysis of 2018 rate requests filed by insurers across eight states.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare and University of Chicago Medicine reached an agreement Monday to keep the medical center and its physicians in the insurer's network, according to an emailed release.