Humana will leave state exchange in '18

Thousands of Tennesseans will lose their health insurance from Humana at the end of this year following the company's announcement Tuesday that it is pulling out of government-run exchanges.

Citing "further signs of an unbalanced risk pool" based on an early analysis of their 2017 exchange enrollees, Humana executives said — as part of a statement addressing the demise of their planned merger with Aetna — that they cannot continue offering individual commercial plans despite adjusting their product and geographic strategies in recent years.