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Mountain View, Calif.-based GetInsured — a health plan e-commerce site — purchased Seattle-based Array Health, a group health insurance startup.

More than half a million Floridians signed up for 2017 health plans through HealthCare.gov as of Nov. 30, representing about one quarter of the 2.1 million total enrollees to date, reports Miami Herald.

Although as a dyed-in-the-wool Cardinals fan it pains me to say anything good about the Chicago Cubs, I am at heart a lover of the entire game of baseball.

Tenet Healthcare in Dallas and Centene reached a three-year agreement to continue providing Centene policyholders access to Tenet facilities at reduced, in-network rates.

The following payers made headlines this past week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will drop Arlington-based Texas Health Resources from its network Jan. 1, unless the two organizations reach a new contract by the end of the year, according to The Dallas Morning News.

American Medical Association President Andrew Gurman, MD, issued a statement Monday in support of blocking Aetna's acquisition of Humana.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and UnitedHealthcare have reached a four-year agreement, which provides UnitedHealthcare members with in-network access to Tenet's facilities throughout the country.

Optima Health, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based payer with 450,000 members, received a 4-star quality rating from CMS for its OptimaFit individual and family health plans. The rating is the highest score achieved by a health plan in the state of…

Nebraska's governor and director of insurance said the state's Senior Health Insurance Information Program saved Medicare beneficiaries more than $15 million over the past year.