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Insurers lower cost-sharing for preventive drugs | Aetna, WellPoint, Humana cut patients' costs to improve compliance, outcomes
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some major health insurers have reduced patient cost-sharing for preventive drugs out of a growing realization that lowering cost-sharing improves compliance and cuts the total cost of care.
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Consumers paying more out-of-pocket, despite slow healthcare spending growth
By Melanie Evans | September 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health spending by privately insured patients increased 4% last year, with households picking up more of the cost, new data show.
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Vital Signs
More than 200 available apps co-branded with healthcare organizations
By Joseph Conn | September 19, 2013
There are more than 200 mobile healthcare applications co-branded with healthcare organizations available on the two main online app marketplaces, Google Play and the Apple App Store, a new research report shows.
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Aetna pulls out of another Obamacare health exchange
By Reuters | August 30, 2013
Aetna has decided not to sell insurance on New York's individual health insurance exchange, the fifth state where it has reversed course in recent weeks.
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Less choice, lower premiums | Many exchange plans will offer narrow networks
By M.P. McQueen | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Many of the health plans that will be sold on the new state insurance exchanges in January will offer substantially smaller networks of hospitals and physicians than current health plans generally offer.
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Embracing ACOs | Private insurers forge string of provider deals for accountable care
By Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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.
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2nd-quarter surge | Insurers see profits swell, prospects good for 2014
By Jonathan Block | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Whether it's the lingering aftershock of the Great Recession, stepped-up efforts at cost control by providers or a combination of the two, slow-growing medical claims led to surging profits for big commercial health insurers in the second quarter.
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Modern Physician
Aetna launches 5 ACO deals in Maine
By Melanie Evans | August 02, 2013
Aetna, one of the largest U.S. insurers, continued its push into accountable care contracts, with five new deals in Maine.
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Health insurer Aetna's 2Q profit rises 17%
By Tom Murphy / Associated Press | July 30, 2013
Aetna Inc.'s second-quarter earnings jumped 17%, and the health insurer raised its 2013 forecast as it reaped revenue and enrollment gains from its acquisition of fellow insurer Coventry Health Care.
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A different kind of Medicaid expansion | Medicaid managed-care insurers prepare to offer plans on insurance exchanges, testing whether more Americans are ready for economy-class coverage
By M.P. McQueen | July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The entry of Medicaid managed-care insurers into the exchange market will test whether a broader segment of Americans will accept the economy-class health coverage.
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