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Louisville, Ky.-based Humana and Centennial, Colo.-based FullWell — an organization offering population health management resources — inked a value-based agreement financially rewarding physicians for quality care.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson could decide the fate of Anthem's proposed $54 billion acquisition of Cigna next week, as the first phase of the government's challenge to the deal ended Dec. 2, reports WBAA.

Columbus-based The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will provide in-network care to all Indianapolis-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage members in Ohio.

Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will get an additional $40 million from competing insurers under the ACA's risk adjustment program for 2015, reports Boston Business Journal.

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller, in partnership with Consumers' Checkbook, unveiled a website to help consumers chose health plans on and off the federal marketplace.

New York's Medicaid program will begin covering gender-transition care for people under 18 under a court-ordered expansion of coverage, effective Dec. 7, The Wall Street Journal reported.

A federal judge ruled Dec. 2 nonprofit health plan Community Health Options can proceed with its lawsuit against the federal government over payments it claims it is owed under the ACA's risk corridors program, reports Maine Public.

America's Health Insurance Plans, one of the nation's two leading industry trade groups, publicly outlined what insurers need from the government if the GOP repeals and replaces the ACA, reports The New York Times.

The U.S. Department of Justice began its antitrust challenge to Aetna's proposed $37 billion takeover of Humana Dec. 5, arguing the deal would limit competition between the insurers' Medicare Advantage and ACA public exchange plans, Louisville Business First reports. 

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge declined the Justice Department's request to stay Portland, Ore.-based Moda Health Plan's lawsuit that seeks more than $208 million in risk corridor payments under the ACA, The National Law Journal reports.