INCOME TAXES	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
INCOME TAXES	INCOME TAXES The effective income tax rate was 37.5% for the three months ended September 30, 2017, compared to 50.1% for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and was 35.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, compared to 50.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, primarily due to the 2017 temporary suspension of the non-deductible health insurance industry fee as well as previously non-deductible transaction costs that, as a result of termination of the Merger Agreement, became deductible for tax purposes and were recorded as such in the three months ended March 31, 2017.

INCOME TAXES

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

The effective income tax rate was 37.5% for the three months ended September 30, 2017, compared to 50.1% for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and was 35.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, compared to 50.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, primarily due to the 2017 temporary suspension of the non-deductible health insurance industry fee as well as previously non-deductible transaction costs that, as a result of termination of the Merger Agreement, became deductible for tax purposes and were recorded as such in the three months ended March 31, 2017.