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The next Affordable Care Act enrollment period commences one week before Election Day in November, and will reveal the health of the program following major payer complaints and exits, according to The Hill. The enrollment period ends one week before…

Health Affairs published a study finding vulnerable populations have less access to physicians participating in accountable care organizations than patients in affluent communities, according to Medscape Multispecialty.

Employees will pay 5 percent more, on average, next year to get health insurance, a National Business Group on Health survey found, according to The Fiscal Times.

Large employers can expect healthcare costs to rise by about 6 percent in 2017, according to Kaiser Health News.

U.S. District Judge John Bates set a Dec. 5 start date for a trial over the pending Aetna-Humana merger, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

Louisiana, Oklahoma and Nebraska insurance regulators formally submitted objections to a proposed federal regulation that would impact short-term health insurance, just in time for the close of the comment period on August 9.

Determining if an employer has to continue its employees' health insurance during a period of extended leave comes down to a variety of factors, the National Law Review reports. 

Universal health insurance could mitigate disparities in health outcomes between African American and white patients, according to a new study in Annals of Surgery.

Newkirk Products, an identification card provider for payers, encountered a data breach last week, according to Healthcare Finance.

On Aug. 9, the healthcare segment increased 0.6 percent in the stock market. Stock-Callers.com analyzed the following four equities.