Big health insurers have to work harder to prove planned mergers are necessary to save money – and that they won’t use their new market power to raise prices.

Anthem killed the $54-billion deal Friday after a failed bid to keep Delaware-based Cigna at the bargaining table.

Medicaid providers in Indiana and around the country have begun to provide some unique benefits to their customers, benefits that have more to do with success in life than health care.

An estimated 500 youth in Indiana age out of foster care system every year and when they do, they will lose health insurance if they don’t re-enroll.

Cigna officials announced Tuesday they had sued Anthem in a Delaware court seeking a judge’s affirmation that the company had lawfully ducked out of the merger agreement.

An analysis by the AP and Avalere Health finds most Indiana counties have three or more marketplace insurers offering coverage for 2017.

The ruling leaves in place a trial court and state appeals court decision that ruled a hospital will have to release information about how it charges and offers discounts to insured patients.

Earlier this year, United Healthcare announced it was exiting Indiana’s individual marketplace, and last month, Fort Wayne-based Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana followed suit.

Indiana is one of 14 states where a single insurer holds at least 50 percent of the market.

The Affordable Care Act and Healthy Indiana Plan have helped provide hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers with health insurance.