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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…

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.

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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.

Kentucky Governor Mat Bevin submitted an updated waiver proposal to the federal government in an effort to curb public criticism of the state's proposed Medicaid expansion plan, according to the Lexington Hearld-Leader.

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