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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. 

Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna launched a service to help policyholders reduce their health expenses through reward programs as well as choose benefits and a team of physicians.

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.