Compensation Issues

Six health insurers were chosen for CMS' Medicare Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management pilot, set to begin Jan. 1.

Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners will limit its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint in Minnesota for 2017, Star Tribune reports.  

Lexington, Ky.-based payer Baptist Health Plan will withdraw from Kentucky's 2017 individual health insurance market, Louisville Business First reports.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based payer UnitedHealthcare released its national Medicare Advantage and Part D portfolio for 2017, with offerings expanded to more than 160 counties.

Minnesota's commerce commissioner released 2017 health insurance premium rate approvals for individual and small group plans, calling the changes "unsustainable."

Medicare Advantage 2017 offerings in western Pennsylvania were released for review before open enrollment Oct. 15, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.

Government health exchanges are on track to offer shoppers fewer options than ever before in 2017.

Due to marketplace challenges, Helena, Mont.-based health insurer New West Health plans to close its doors by mid-2017, reports Daily Inter Lake.

The Utah Department of Insurance said Thursday premium rates for health plans on the state's individual marketplace will jump an average of 30 percent for 2017, KSL reports.

Dayton, Ohio-based payer CareSource will more than triple the number of West Virginia counties where it sells marketplace plans next year, Dayton Daily News reports.