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

More than 4,465 provider groups participating in value-based relationships with Humana received more than $93.6 million for boosting quality care outcomes.

New York City-based startup Oscar Health posted a $45 million loss in its New York, Texas and California ACA individual plan markets in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, reports Bloomberg.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office dismissed protests from UnitedHealthcare, Health Net and WellPoint over losing two large military healthcare contract bids valued at a combined $58 billion.

Health insurance premiums in Minnesota are seeing hikes as a disproportionate number of chronically residents file claims, reports Duluth News Tribune.

Hospitals and health organizations in Kansas are maintaining efforts to expand the state's Medicaid program, even as an incoming Trump administration may repeal the ACA, The Wichita Eagle reports.

The growth of telecommunicating for work in Connecticut will likely not be hindered by Aetna's September decision to change its work from home policy to increase the number of onsite employees, reports Hartford Business. 

Ohio's Medicaid Chief John McCarthy is vacating his position in December as the program's trajectory remains unknown under an incoming Trump administration, reports The Columbus Dispatch.

A printing error Oct. 31 caused as many as 170,000 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey customers to receive benefit letters baring the names, policy numbers and physician information of other policyholders, reports NJ.com.

The American College of Emergency Physicians released a video in response to Cigna's $9 million TV physician ad campaign, calling on health insurers to provide fair coverage for "real-life" emergency physicians and patients.