Iowa's largest health insurer, Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield, will sell policies on the Affordable Care Act's online health insurance marketplace in 2017, according to The Des Moines Register.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
San Diego-based Scripps Health has entered into an affiliation agreement with Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District in Brawley, Calif. The two-year agreement marks Scripps' first hospital affiliation outside San Diego County.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health, Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., and Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick have formed a regional alliance called Coastal Community Health.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey — the state's largest insurer — on is defending its new Omnia Health Alliance while lawmakers probe criteria it used to select which providers can participate in the network, according to a…
Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn., has become the first hospital in the state to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network, according to a Hartford Courant report.
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Iberia Medical Center in New Iberia, La., and Progressive Acute Care, a Louisiana healthcare system based in Mandeville, entered into a non-binding letter of intent for IMC to acquire Dauterive Hospital in New Iberia.
Glasgow, Ky.-based T.J. Regional Health is making a proposal to acquire Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia, Ky., according to a WBKO report.
Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Health System has expanded its footprint, as St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, N.Y., has agreed to join the system.
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has called off merger talks with Putnam, Conn.-based Day Kimball Healthcare due to pending state Medicaid cuts, according to a Hartford Courant report.
The third open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act begins Nov. 1 for coverage effective in January, giving the 25 million adults who still lack healthcare coverage the opportunity to sign up.