Payer

Lexington, Ky.-based payer Baptist Health Plan will withdraw from Kentucky's 2017 individual health insurance market, Louisville Business First reports.

Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services severed ties with payer UnitedHealthcare and took out a full-page newspaper ad to announce the separation, Daily Journal reports.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare dropped Humana health insurance plans following failed contract negotiations, Humana confirmed.

Health insurance co-op Minuteman Health selected insurance software startup Zipari as its provider search solution.  

Minnetonka, Minn.-based payer UnitedHealthcare released its national Medicare Advantage and Part D portfolio for 2017, with offerings expanded to more than 160 counties.

Health insurer Aetna teamed up with Jacksonville, Fla.-based providers Baptist Health and St. Vincent's HealthCare for a value-based benefit plan aimed at improving quality and cutting costs.

Minnesota's commerce commissioner released 2017 health insurance premium rate approvals for individual and small group plans, calling the changes "unsustainable."

Medicare Advantage 2017 offerings in western Pennsylvania were released for review before open enrollment Oct. 15, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she may review a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Anthem's proposed $54 billion acquisition of Cigna in two phases, Reuters reports.

Government health exchanges are on track to offer shoppers fewer options than ever before in 2017.