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Louisville, Ky.-based Humana partnered with telemedicine services and software provider MDLive to provide Humana Medicare Advantage members remote physician access in select Georgia and South Carolina counties.

Americans trying to gain insurance coverage through HealthCare.gov are being placed in online "waiting rooms" to avoid crashing the sign-up system, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The monetary amount of court-ordered restitution payments for insurance fraud in Kentucky increased by 800 percent in 2016, according to a recent report from the Kentucky Department of Insurance's Fraud Division.

St. Louis-based payer Centene and Kentucky will settle all lawsuits and complaints regarding Centene's termination of services with the state more than three years ago, reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

These 10 contract resolutions and dissolutions occurred between payers and providers in the past month, beginning with the most recent.

Detroit-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan gained CMS approval for its Patient-Centered Medical Home model to receive merit-based payments under the Medicare Quality Payment Program, reports TV 6.

The ACA lowered America's uninsured rate to a historic 8.6 percent low in the first three months of 2016 — a progression that a CDC report predicts will start slowing this year, according to CBS News.

Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna will ditch plans to expand its federal exchange presence into 10 states from seven, following the likes of UnitedHealthcare and Aetna in limiting ACA marketplace footprints, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. 

As many as 8.4 million individuals will shoulder sizeable health plan premium hikes next year, according to HHS data.

UPMC Health Plan opened a retail service and sales associate location at Monroeville (Pa.) Mall to assist policyholders with their insurance questions and basic healthcare needs.