Highmark news and information

Having trouble logging in to healthcare.gov? Have no fear. In response to opening-day technical glitches and heavy traffic to its insurance marketplace website, HHS posted data Tuesday afternoon showing available plans and premiums across the 36 states with federally facilitated insurance...
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The UPMC health system is expressing confidence that it won't be seriously wounded in the battle to hold onto patients in the aftermath of the Highmark-West Penn Allegheny merger.
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Outliers has long known that competition among Pittsburgh's health systems and insurers has been fierce and caustic, with skirmishes between major players spilling into courtrooms and headlines.
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MANHASSET, N.Y.—Only two hospitals have earned the U.S. Green Building Council's highest honor for the entirety of their operations: Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin; and Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg, Kan. But Katz Women's Hospital in Manhasset is...
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Highmark's turn to try to stanch losses at Pittsburgh's West Penn Allegheny Health System has begun.
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Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark Health Services is creating an accountable care network as the next step in an ambitious and nationally watched move into healthcare delivery.
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Five health insurance carriers and a major drugstore chain will require their business associates to participate in an independent security-assessment program sponsored by the Health Information Trust Alliance, or HITRUST.
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One of the nation's largest insurers last week closed on a $1 billion deal to become a large integrated delivery system with a pledge that newly acquired hospitals and doctors would deliver savings for enrollees and patients.
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Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark fulfilled its drawn out and widely watched bid to buy a struggling local hospital system and revitalize it as the core of an integrated delivery network.
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Highmark has moved to buy out investors in West Penn Allegheny Health System, a Pittsburgh health system that has faltered under significant debt and continued operating losses.
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