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The Delaware Department of Insurance approved premium rate increases for two insurers offering on exchange individual plans for 2017.

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

Minnesota Republican legislators called for provisions to address rising health plan premiums and individual Affordable Care Act marketplace insurer exits, Star Tribune reports.

Health insurer Humana will drop its Medicare Advantage plan in California's Santa Cruz County for 2017, Santa Cruz Sentinel Business reports.

The Illinois Department of Insurance said 35 percent of individuals who lost coverage when co-op Land of Lincoln Health shuttered did not purchase new coverage through the state's exchange before their previous coverage ended Sept. 30, Chicago Tribune reports.

A U.S. District Judge dismissed allegations that Blue Cross Blue Shield of California violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when it used an autodialer to contact a plaintiff.

Geisinger Health Plan and Hackensack Meridian Health ended a four-year collaboration on their Medicare Advantage plan — Geisinger Gold — and will not offer the plan in New Jersey for 2017.

The Iowa Insurance Division said 13 rural counties will house one insurer offering individual health plans on the state's Affordable Care Act exchange next year.

Figures released by CMS show that U.S. government health plans spent more than $1 billion on Mylan's EpiPens in a five-year period, reports Reuters.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Yale Medicine, the clinical faculty at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., reached a multi-year contract agreement two days before their existing contract expires, according to Yale Daily News.