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The Council for Medicare Integrity released its list of the regions with the highest amount of Medicare waste, featuring nine states and Washington, D.C., the Financial Times reports.

Allina Health and Aetna, both based in Minneapolis, created a jointly owned health plan company to provide insurance options to the Minneapolis area.

Here are three legislative changes impacting the healthcare industry from the past month for surgery center leaders to note.

The South Carolina-based Palmetto Promise Institute issued a report on the importance of reversing the ACA's expanded Medicaid programs, the National Review reports.

Despite a possible repeal of the ACA looming, Americans responded positively about President Barack Obama's health law, a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found, according to Politico.

Benzinga predicts the winners and losers of the Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna and the Louisville, Ky.-based Humana deal.

JAMA published a study analyzing which specialties charged more than the Medicare program actually pays, with anesthesiologists topping the list.

U.S. District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson is expected to block the pending merger between Indianapolis-based Anthem and Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, the New York Post reports.

CMS announced that 359,000 physicians intend to participate in four of CMS' Alternative Payment Models in 2017.

A recent Congressional Budget Office report found millions will be left without coverage and premiums will increase significantly if legislators dismantle the ACA through the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015.