The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.
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Durham-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will let go 165 customer service employees who were hired during the 2017 open enrollment period for ACA health plans, CBS North Carolina reports.
The U.S. uninsured rate was 9 percent in 2016, an insignificant difference from the 9.1 percent recorded in 2015, according to the CDC.
Jody Bilney, chief consumer officer of Humana, recently spoke with Forbes about how the health insurance giant is adapting its marketing strategies to appeal to today's healthcare consumers.
This month the Justice Department intervened in two whistle-blower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act against Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group.
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Four of the largest U.S. health insurers reported mixed results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017.
CMS released a new proposal on May 15, which would transfer online enrollment for Federally-Facilitated Small Business Health Options Program plans from the HealthCare.gov exchange to insurers, agents or brokers by Jan. 1, 2018.
A projected 6.3 million people with pre-existing conditions could face higher premiums under the ACA replacement plan approved by the House, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group will shutter its subsidiary Harken Health due to losses accrued by the health plan's individual policies, Star Tribune reports.
New York state is one step closer to having a single-payer health plan after the state assembly passed the New York Health Act on Tuesday, according to a Times Union report.