Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health will be placed under state control and shut down — leaving 49,000 uninsured — in light of the $31.8 million it owes under the Affordable Care Act's Risk Adjustment program, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Providers and insurers are blaming one another for surprising patients with medical bills, The Wall Street Journal reported.
While 13 insurers in Ohio are requesting premium rate increases — some up to nearly 40 percent — for 2017, subsidies offered through the Affordable Care Act will offset the hikes for a majority of marketplace consumers, Dayton Daily News…
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna received one of the final state sign-offs for its $37 billion acquisition of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana Monday after New York's insurance regulator granted conditional approval, an insider told Bloomberg.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System is closer to building a $25 million behavioral health hospital about a mile east of its main Erlanger campus, according to a Times Free Press report.
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As the Department of Justice's decisions on the Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna deals loom, one Connecticut senator is hoping to persuade the insurers to remain in the state, according to The CT Mirror.
St. Charles Medical Center-Bend (Ore.) plans to build a new patient tower on its northeast campus, nearly doubling its intensive care unit beds by 2018. The new tower is part of a larger $66 million expansion project intended to reduce…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Queens has opened a new outpatient imaging facility at the 140,000-square-foot Mount Sinai Queens Ambulatory Pavilion. Mount Sinai Imaging is part of the hospital's $175 million expansion plan and the latest addition to the largest…
Houston-based Texas Medical Center plans to build an Intercontinental-brand hotel and an apartment complex according to the Houston Business Journal.
Effective December 31, Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Health Plan will no longer offer individual health plans on the Affordable Care Act exchange, reports Santa Fe New Mexican.