(Bloomberg) -- UnitedHealth Group is exiting New Jersey’sObamacare exchange, marking the 27thstate market the insurer is quitting.

UnitedHealth’s Oxford Health Plansunit won’t participate in New Jersey’s individual market in 2017,on the Patient Protection and Affordable CareAct exchange or elsewhere, according to a letterobtained by Bloomberg through an open-records request.

Another unit will continue selling plans outside of PPACA, andthe company will keep offering coverage to small businesses,according to Marshall McKnight, a spokesman for New Jersey’sDepartment of Banking & Insurance.

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