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Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare have reached a three-year contract agreement to bring all six Piedmont facilities back into UnitedHealthcare's network, reports WTVM.

Health insurance premium rates will rise for more than 75,000 Iowa residents next year after the state's insurance commissioner approved rate requests for four insurers Monday.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Monday the state's Medicaid expansion allowed more than half a million residents to obtain health insurance, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

With 2.3 million Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees facing the choice of one insurer next year — up 2 million from 2016 —  insurer pullbacks may threaten competition in nearly a third of U.S. counties.

High-need adults — those with three or more chronic diseases and functional limitations inhibiting self-care or daily tasks — are seated with some of the highest medical costs.

Moody's Investors Service said Aetna enhanced its credit prospects after retracting from Affordable Care Act exchanges in over 500 counties, the Hartford Courant reported.

New York's essential health insurance plan helps low-income individuals purchase coverage. However, it may increase premiums for others purchasing coverage through the state's exchange, the Observer-Dispatch reports.

Tennessee's Insurance Commissioner Julie McPeak fears the state's Affordable Care Act exchange may collapse after insurance regulators approved major rate hikes for insurers, reports The Tennessean.

Humana will not sell individual health plans on Utah's government exchange next year, reports Salt Lake Tribune.

Insurers in swing states are requesting some of the steepest premium increases for 2017 Affordable Care Act plans, a move that could give Republican senators who want to see the ACA repealed a leg up in the upcoming election, according…