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Detroit-based United Auto Workers has plans to overhaul healthcare for autoworkers through an independent co-op that experts are saying could be difficult to pull off, according to The Detroit Free Press.

Roughly 600 patients at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas are being moved into a new 17-story, $1.3 billion facility this week, according to The Dallas Morning News.

The biggest insurers in the health insurance marketplace raised premiums an average of 75 percent more this year than smaller insurers in each state, according to a study in the Harvard Journal of Technology Science.

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Flint-based HealthPlus of Michigan, an HMO under state supervision since March for financial losses, expects to complete its turnaround next month when it closes the sale of its Medicaid plan to Troy-based Molina Healthcare of Michigan, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

The Iowa Department of Human Services has awarded Medicaid managed care contracts to four private insurers.

Barlow Respiratory Hospital (BRH) is a 105 bed licensed acute care hospital with three locations in the greater Los Angeles area.

Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock has announced plans to build a new pediatric hospital campus in Springdale, Ark., on 37 acres of donated land.

Six health systems in Michigan agreed to integrate their care networks and collaborate on best practices by launching a clinically integrated network, according to MiBiz.

MercyRockford Health System, a merger between Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health System and Rockford (Ill.) Health System, plans to build a $400 million "destination" hospital campus in Rockford, according to a Rockford Register Star report.