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Podcast: This Week in Managed Care - HHS Proposes New ACA Rule, and Other News

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

This week included news that insurers in both blocked megamergers—Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna—are not interested in appealing the decision and instead want to terminate the deals, a new proposed rule to tighten up enrollment for the Affordable Care Act and stabilize the marketplace, and a new law in New Jersey that provides the strictest mandates in the country for treating opioid and heroin addiction.

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