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Health insurers Aetna and Humana said the U.S. Department of Justice belated releasing sought-after documents that would help the insurers defend their proposed $37 billion transaction, Hartford Courant reports.

Pregnant women within a specific income bracket will no longer be automatically dropped from Covered California and transferred to Medi-Cal, as a computer malfunction attributed to the problem was fixed, California Healthline reports.

The Oklahoma Insurance Department is preparing for an average 76 percent increase on individual health plans offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

Indianapolis-based payer Anthem is eyeing an Atlanta-based IT center, possibly hiring more than 1,000 to staff the operation, Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. 

Restricted provider networks may be the link to America's cost-conscious uninsured population, a study published in Health Affairs found.

The federal government granted cautious approval Tuesday for Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to unplug the state's health exchange Kynect, rerouting enrollees to the federal Healthcare.gov exchange, Courier-Journal reports. 

True collaboration is easier said than done.

State auditors found Kansas spent more than $2 million attempting to clear a backlog of unprocessed first-time applications for Medicaid, Lawrence Journal-World reports.

OneCare Vermont, the accountable care organization that represents 30 percent of primary care providers in Vermont, will convene with two other major physician groups to vote on whether to support the creation of an all payer healthcare payment system, reports…

A New Jersey legislator introduced a bill that would require state health, banking and insurance departments to create a government-operated health plan to help stabilize the state's volatile exchange, reports NJ.com.