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Manchester, N.H.-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield will extend coverage to physician remote access technologies for its 2017 Medicare Advantage New Hampshire plans.

Seventeen health insurers earned a 5-star rating in U.S. News & World Report's Best Medicare Advantage Plans 2017.

Two Brooklyn, NY.-based healthcare facilities — Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center and Brookdale Family Care Center — will provide mammograms free of charge to uninsured women this week, Brownsville Patch reports.

Anthem and Cigna will need to hand over documents and emails potentially showing the two payers accused each other of breaching their $54 billion acquisition agreement, Hartford Courant reports.

Nearly three-quarters of a million south Florida residents may be affected by a contract dispute between Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and payer Humana, Sun Sentinel reports.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center and payer UnitedHealthcare launched a value-based payment model for lung cancer treatment effective Oct. 1.

Consumers will see standardized health plans as an option when they go to shop on the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplace for 2017 coverage, reports The New York Times.

Two Kansas state agencies scheduled several August public meetings to discuss KanCare, the state's Medicaid program, but canceled the meetings a week prior, The Wichita Eagle reports.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department released 2017 Affordable Care Act rates for individual and small group plans, with individual premium rates rising an average 32.5 percent.

Colorado residents will vote on whether to establish a tax-funded, universal health system this November amid mounting challenges to the measure, The Gazette reports.