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The state of Louisiana saw 200,000 new Medicaid enrollees during its first week of the program's expanded eligibility, The Advocate reported.

Boston-based John Hancock Financial will hike rates for plans covering individuals' in-home and nursing home care by about 20 percent, The Boston Globe reported.

Roughly 5,000 Assister Programs helped Americans select plans and apply for financial subsidies during the Affordable Care Act's third open enrollment period, according to a 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation survey.

Despite key insurers like UnitedHealthcare and Humana pulling out of the Affordable Care Act exchanges in many states, some insurance executives and federal officials say the marketplace is working, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Starting January 2017, UnitedHealthcare will fund up to $5,000 of kidney transplant donors' lodging and travel expenses.

The Affordable Care Act is improving healthcare accessibility and affordability for enrollees, according to a recent ACA survey from The Commonwealth Fund.

Hollywood's biggest labor union, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, will merge its two healthcare plans to cover over 65,000 of its members, the Los Angeles Times reported.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee enrollees, beware: You might be the subject of a phone scam, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Karen Lynch, president of Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna, said the health insurer is providing the U.S. Department of Justice information on its acquisition of Humana, and that the deal is on track to close in the second half of this year,…

The trade group for Minnesota health insurers released a report Tuesday detailing a decrease in the state's individual and group private health insurance enrollments between December and March, according to the StarTribune.