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New York City-based startup Oscar Health will extend its ACA exchange presence in Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Tennessee and California for 2018.

Leesburg, Va.-based Inova Loudon Hospital launched a fundraising campaign June 7 to support a $300 million expansion, reports WashingtonExec.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based Medica, the only payer offering ACA exchange plans statewide in Iowa for 2018, seeks an average 43.5 percent rate increase for individual plans next year, Live Well Nebraska reports.

After much speculation, no Colorado insurers will leave the state's exchange next year, according to the  Denver Post.

So far in 2017, nine hospitals and health systems announced or unveiled facility expansions and renovations with price tags of $500 million or more.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's Hawaii branch will spend more than $50 million on three Maui County hospitals, effective July 1, according to the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

The Johns Hopkins Simulation Center, located in Baltimore-based The Johns Hopkins Hospital, is complete.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., celebrated the opening of its family health pavilion Monday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to a report on lehighvalleylive.com.

Outpatient services once found on the hospital campus are increasingly popping up in the shopping mall, according to the Wall Street Journal.

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, the state's largest insurer, is preparing to return to the ACA exchange in 2018 despite the unpredictability surrounding the healthcare law, according to the Chicago Tribune.