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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.

Geisinger Health Plan in Danville, Pa., implemented automated coding technology from Talix to streamline risk adjustment processes.

President-elect Donald Trump and former GOP presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mitt Romney each made the authorization of cross-state health insurance sales a key part of their healthcare agendas.

A consumer group that filed suit against Anthem Blue Cross Nov. 1 has requested an injunction preventing the insurer from switching 500,000 Californians to health plans that offer no coverage for out-of-network care, reports Los Angeles Times.

Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary's Health Care System and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia reached an agreement to continue in-network collaboration, reports Athens Banner-Herald.