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Helena-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana will cut health IT and server positions by February or March next year, Independent Record reports.

Detroit-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is hiring 100 individuals to staff full-time customer service positions for its Detroit and Southfield, Mich., offices.

Richardson-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health extended their relationship through a four-year contract.

Here are the third quarter revenue and net income statistics from the five of the largest health insurance companies in the United States.

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

St. Louis-based Centene will receive a tax abatement on its proposed $772 million office campus, saving $75 million over two decades, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. 

MNsure — Minnesota's ACA exchange — recorded nearly 24,000 individual health plan enrollees since open enrollment commenced Nov. 1, up from the 7,000 signups it saw during the same period in 2015, reports Star Tribune.

Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Health Partners and Albany-based Capital District Physicians' Health Plan launched opposing websites to reveal a contract spat over provider payments, reports Times Union.

The U.S. Department of Justice called on the judge overseeing the Aetna-Humana acquisition trial to rebut Aetna's request for a pre-trial testimony from CMS' acting administrator, arguing the deposition should only be allowed under extraordinary circumstances, reports Hartford Courant.

CMS recorded an increase of 53,000 enrollees during the first 12 days of open enrollment this year compared to last year.