(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government will pay Anthem Inc. $742million and Humana Inc. $549 million to reimburse big insuranceclaims the companies covered under the Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act.
The reinsurance payments -- which also went tofirms like Aetna Inc. and Assurant Inc. -- are designed tostabilize Obamacare’s nascent insurance markets by helping to covermore expensive claims. The figures disclosed Tuesday were in linewith what the companies had projected.
Details of those payments and a related program that shiftsfunds among companies were released by the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services.
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