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

California's state ACA marketplace will on average see lower premium increases than the federal exchanges, which are set to rise by an average of 25 percent for next year, reports California Healthline.

GOP leaders are requesting the Obama administration tally the amount of money it will spend on subsidies next year following its announcement that benchmark ACA health plan premiums will jump by an average of 25 percent nationwide, The Hill reports.

Bloomfield, Conn.-based payer Cigna will sponsor a cross-country community health and wellness tour using a fleet of mobile clinics.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health is seeking a last minute contract with an ACA exchange insurer days before open enrollment begins Nov. 1, The Tennessean reports.

CMS will target 15 markets to try to boost sign-ups in the ACA's fourth annual open enrollment.

Profit in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016 for Aetna increased 8 percent from the same period last year to a total of $603.9 million.

Neighborhood Health Plan, a subsidiary of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, closed enrollment to new Medicaid members after it reported $241 million in losses since 2014, reports The Boston Globe.

Open enrollment for 2017 health coverage commences in less than a week amid critical issues involving outreach, risk management and consumer options.

Payer Anthem will establish a health IT hub in Atlanta over the next six years and create more than 1,800 IT-related jobs.