1. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Mo.) will not sell individual ACA health plans in the payer’s 32-county service area in Missouri and Kansas for 2018.
2. Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna will exit ACA exchanges in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Virginia in 2018, marking the insurer’s full exit from the individual marketplace.
3. Des Moines, Iowa-based Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield will leave Iowa’s ACA health insurance exchange effective Jan. 1, 2018.
4. Louisville, Ky.-based Humana plans to no longer provide individual products through ACA exchanges effective Jan. 1, 2018.
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