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CMS plans to introduce an all-payer ACO model in Vermont in January 2017, according to RevCycle Intelligence.

Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) called on Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (D) to fix the state's health insurance crisis or resign, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

Humana will pay its stockholders a dividend of $0.29 per share on Jan. 27, 2017.

Payers across the nation often have different portals, which is a key point of frustration for physicians. This frustration prompted CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt to ask insurers to simplify their health plans and reduce the administrative burden for providers…

Deloitte's "2016 Survey of US Physicians" showed many physicians are reimbursed under a fee-for-service model, rather than a value-based care system in which providers are paid based on outcomes.

Anthem is expected to announce plans to open a technology center in Midtown Atlanta which would add several thousand jobs to the Atlanta area, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports.

In advance of the pending vote on the all-payer draft agreement, Vermont's potential model continues to be scrutinized, the Times Argus reports.

Centene Corp. has doubled its growth after the ACA's Medicaid expansion last year, Forbes reports.

Going forth into 2017, the average premium for ACA silver plans will increase 22 percent, on average, according to CNN Money.

Health payers are struggling with improving price transparency and its costing them contracts with employers, HealthPayerIntelligence.com reports.