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Late News: Cigna requires genetic counseling | New policy aims to reduce inappropriate testing of at-risk patients
By Jaimy Lee | July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
With the use of genetic testing growing rapidly, Cigna Corp. has become the first major health insurer to require subscribers who are at risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer syndromes or Long QT syndrome and are considering genetic testing to first meet with a certified genetic counselor.
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Md. insurance official approves healthcare rates
By Brian Witte / Associated Press | July 26, 2013
Newly approved rates for health plans that will be sold in the individual market through Maryland's new health benefit exchange will have some of the lowest costs among the 12 states that have either proposed or approved rates, the state's insurance commissioner said Friday.
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Va. students' Social Security numbers used on health plan mailer
By Joseph Conn | July 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
About 18,700 students at the University of Virginia have been notified by a campus health official that Social Security numbers were printed along with their names and addresses on a recently mailed brochure touting a commercially offered student health insurance plan.
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Vital Signs
Could insurers leaving Calif. individual market be a precursor?
By Jonathan Block | July 03, 2013
First Aetna, and now UnitedHealth.
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App will let health insurer track customer behavior
By MIT Technology Review | June 18, 2013
A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health-tracking data. As costs spiral upward, healthcare companies could turn to such apps as a way to monitor customers and encourage healthy behavior.
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Health insurance costs to rise for Ohioans, state says
By Ann Sanner / Associated Press | June 07, 2013
Insurers who plan to participate in the new health insurance exchange are projecting their costs to cover Ohioans to be significantly higher, according to an analysis by the state.
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CommonWell controversy resurfaces in HITPC meeting
By Joseph Conn | April 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A coalition of five electronic health-record developers created a buzz and a controversy last month when they announced they were forming the CommonWell Health Alliance to promote health information exchange.
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Value-based insurance plans gain momentum
By Jonathan Block | March 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition.
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Blue Shield, Aetna to raise healthcare rates over Calif. objections
By Los Angeles Times | March 07, 2013
Despite objections from regulators, health insurers Blue Shield of California and Aetna are proceeding with double-digit rate increases that California officials said were unreasonable.
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WellCare acquires UnitedHealth Group's South Carolina Medicaid business
By Paul Barr | February 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Insurer WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., closed on a previously announced deal to acquire the South Carolina Medicaid business of UnitedHealth Group for undisclosed terms. The South Carolina Department of Insurance valued the company at $27 million in approving the deal.
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