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To spend more time with patients, more healthcare providers are using direct-pay healthcare, according to USA Today.

Voters in Colorado will have a chance to weigh in on the single-payer healthcare system in 2016 — a new initiative will be added to the ballot next year, according to a report from The Denver Post.

About 533,000 Americans enrolled for healthcare insurance on the federal insurance exchange, according to The Washington Post. The Department of Health and Human Services released enrollment statistics.

Blue Cross Blue Shield created a new patient-focused care network, Blue Distinction Total Care, according to Health IT Outcomes.

As the healthcare industry continues to move toward patient-centered care, providers strategize how to offer the highest quality of care based on patient needs. Navigating the healthcare landscape may prove difficult for patients, especially when paying for their care.

Nearly 60 percent of California's undocumented immigrants do not have health insurance and 51 percent of the illegal immigrant population is impoverished, according to a Public Policy Institute of California report, as reported by HNGN.

TouchCare updated a product that will provide physicians with more features, allowing them to readily adapt mobile video consults into their practice.

On Wednesday, The American Medical Association sent a letter to the Department of Justice imploring the agency to ban the recent insurance mega-merger deals, according to The Huffington Post.

Cigna, a global health service company, is collaborating with Alexian Brothers Clinically Integrated Network and Midwest Center for Women's Healthcare, both located in Chicago, on programs to improve care coordination and minimize costs.

Health agencies in Michigan are implementing a program, Enroll Michigan, which offers free, in-person enrollment assistance, according to RecordEagle.com.