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Urbana, Ill.-based Health Alliance pulled its individual health plans from the ACA exchange this week after reaching its enrollment cap before the marketplace closes Jan. 31.

More than 359,000 clinicians will participate in four of CMS' alternative payment models in 2017, the agency said Wednesday.

Buffalo-based BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and Roswell Park Caner Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., reached a three-year agreement to continue in-network access to the institute and its affiliated physicians for the insurer's policyholders, reports Clarence Bee. 

CVS Pharmacy said it was not its "desire or decision" to leave a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama pharmacy network providing coverage for 390,000 policyholders, reports AL.com.

Chicago-based Blue Cross Blue Shield Association issued a positive assessment of Seattle-based NanoString's Prosigna Breast Cancer assay.

Individuals suffering from cardiac arrest who receive bystander-initiated CPR while waiting for an ambulance to arrive have higher survival rates, according to a recent study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston). MD Anderson’s Nellie B. Connally Breast Center is one of the largest in the nation, as clinicians there treat 40,000 patients every year. The center houses an extensive team of oncologists and…

In a recent press release, MEDtegrity announed they have launched a new custom website. 

Fifty-two million adults under age 65 have pre-existing conditions that would have likely made them uninsurable before the ACA eliminated pre-existing conditions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. The neurosurgery department at 1,541-bed Yale-New Haven Hospital dates back to 1918 and touts several milestones in neurological care, including the first transplant of a nerve cell into the brain of a multiple sclerosis patient. The…