Doctors, patients and Medicare advocates scrambled this week to determine how they are affected by UnitedHealthcare's decision to eliminate thousands of doctors from its physician network for Medicare Advantage next year. FULL STORY »
Thousands of doctors in Connecticut are being dropped from UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage plans next year. A UnitedHealthcare spokesman confirmed the cuts but said he did not have an exact number of doctors affected. FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 29, 2013
| Basic Web
A growing number of employers, including UPS and Wal-Mart Stores, have decided that electronic cigarettes are an unhealthy habit and are imposing tobacco-use penalties on employees who use them. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013
| Print Magazine
In a growing number of contracts with providers, private health insurers are embracing accountable care, which holds providers jointly responsible for controlling costs and improving outcomes. FULL STORY »
By Steven Ross Johnson | July 30, 2013
| Basic Web
Three leading public health organizations have announced plans to partner in a project aimed at helping the nation's healthcare providers prepare for the 2014 expansion of Medicaid coverage. FULL STORY »
Cigna Corp. will begin requiring patients who are at risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer syndromes or Long QT syndrome and are considering genetic testing to first receive genetic counseling. FULL STORY »
Seton Health Alliance entered an accountable care contract with UnitedHealthcare that the organizations said could extend the reach of the Seton ACO to as many as 320,000 Texans covered by the insurer's employer-sponsored plans. FULL STORY »
America's Health Insurance Plans is among the latest set of organizations that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is questioning in what has become an expanded probe of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising efforts to help implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
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