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New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has proposed a limited amendment to the personal injury protection fee schedule, reports Jeff Shanton, vice president and chair of government affairs for NJAASC.

President Donald Trump said the administration plans to release its healthcare plan next month during a White House News conference, CNBC reports.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna Chief Executive Mark Bertolini spoke out against the ACA exchanges only one day after Aetna and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana announced they were ending their merger agreement, according to the Washington Post.

The U.S. Department of Justice joined San Francisco-based Constantine Cannon's whistleblower lawsuit against Hopkins, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group, saying the payer allegedly overcharged Medicare by several hundreds of millions of dollars.

Former CMS CMO Jeffrey Kang, MD, penned a column for STAT in which he argues Medicare Advantage should convert other providers to transition to value-based care.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead CMS Seema Verma offered Senators very few specific answers during her Feb. 16, 2017, confirmation hearing, The Hill reports.

Medscape presented two recent studies which show ACOs do produce cost savings, although these gains may take some time to present themselves. JAMA Internal Medicine published the two studies online on Feb. 13, 2017.

Louisville, Ky.-based Humana is the first major payer to announce it will completely withdraw from the ACA marketplace in 2018, according to the New York Times.

A study published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network examined payers' reluctance to cover hereditary cancer panels.

As President Donald Trump begins his ACA repeal, CDC data said the nation's uninsured rate was at its lowest ever at 8.8 percent in 2016, the Los Angeles Times reports.