Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are four insurers planning to exit the ACA marketplace in 2018, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.

As the Senate reviews the Congressional Budget Office's score of the American Health Care Act, Joseph Swedish, CEO of Indianapolis-based Anthem, said he expects the Senate bill to look like "a repair more than a repeal and replace," according to…

Officials from 100-bed Rice Memorial Hospital and Affiliated Community Medical Centers Health — both in Willmar, Minn. — voted to officially sign a letter of intent to affiliate with St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare Health.

Randolph Health, 145-bed facility in Asheboro, N.C., and Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health signed a nonbinding letter of agreement Wednesday to discuss a possible affiliation.

Catalyst CRE, a healthcare real estate development firm, has acquired Fort Walton Beach, Fla.-based White-Wilson Medical Center's real estate assets for nearly $31.3 million.

A new HHS analysis found individual health plan premiums have doubled since 2013, the year before various market reforms were enacted under the ACA.

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Foundation signed a definitive agreement to acquire 297-bed Mission (Texas) Regional Medical Center.

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.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health's Arizona hospitals are no longer in Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net's network following unresolved disputes about reimbursement rates, according to The Arizona Republic. 

Rockford, Ill.-based Mercyhealth officials voiced their opposition to SwedishAmerican Hospital's proposed 10-bed neonatal intensive care unit during a hearing Tuesday, stating the NICU would be "an unnecessary duplication of services that would hurt patients and families with inferior care," according…