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The ACA saw fewer Americans enroll into its healthcare exchanges in 2016 as the uninsured population base continued to decrease, McClatchyDC reports.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced a pilot program to test post-enrollment eligibility it intends to have in place by 2017, The Hill reports.

“How do I keep patients happy, while making sure they pay their bills, on time and in full?”

Government officials are looking to keep the insurance marketplace afloat as major payers leave state exchanges. Therefore, the HHS is employing various strategies, according to Kaiser Health News.

The New Hampshire insurance market will have one less option as the Maine-based Community Health Options declined to continue offering policies in 2017, Morning Consult reports. 

Connecticut's Insurance Department recently approved 13 rate increases "that far outstripped increases in recent years," the CT Mirror reports.

A new study from the Society of Human Resource Management looked at the effects the rising cost of healthcare had on employers and employees, BenefitsPRO reports. 

Taxpayers will bear 71 percent of California healthcare costs this year, based on a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research report, according to Healthcare DIVE.

Pew Charitable Trusts analyzed state Medicaid spending and found that even as coverage fell in 2014, state's still spent $.167 of every revenue dollar on Medicaid, the organization reports.

Kentucky's Attorney General Andy Beshear is suing Fresenius Medical Care Holdings because he believes the company put its patients at risk through the use of a blood screening product that has been shown to cause heart attacks, stroke or arrhythmia,…