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Christus (Irving, Texas). The faith-based Catholic system, with more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, decided to get some skin in the ACO game this year. It launched three Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs in January: Christus Physician Group…

CHI Health Partners (Omaha, Neb.). CHI Health Partners, which is doing business as TPN Health Partners, is a newly minted Medicare Shared Savings Program as of January. In Track 1 of the program, it is not responsible for downside risk.…

Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, Va.). Carilion Clinic’s Doctors Connected has been in the Medicare Shared Savings Program since 2013. Participating providers include its primary care physician group, emergency services and four hospitals. Carilion teamed up with Aetna in 2011 on a…

Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (Westwood, Mass.). BIDCO has participated in CMS’ Pioneer ACO program since 2012 and is one of the remaining nine. Data for performance year 2014 shows BIDCO secured $9.85 million in shared savings, the third-most of…

Cigna Healthcare of North Carolina is the latest company to request an injunction in the potential sale of Pioneer Community Hospital of Stokes County in Danbury, N.C., reports Winston-Salem Journal.

Here are 5 statistics that track how Affordable Care Act exchanges across the U.S. have fluctuated between 2014 and 2017, according to Vox.

Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler fined Regence BlueCross BlueShield and Asuris Northwest Health $750,000 each for violating insurance regulations related to consumer access and delayed claims reimbursement to providers, reports The Washington Times.

Financial statements from Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, Regence BlueCross BlueShield and Providence Health Plan show significant market gains in the first half of 2016, reports Portland Business Journal.

HHS has released a report showing that people who purchase plans on government exchanges in 2017 can still pay affordable monthly premiums, even if all final rates increased by double digits.

Premera Blue Cross and MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash., have signed a three-year, value-based contract, reports The Spokesman-Review.