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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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As insurance exchanges opened Tuesday, health insurance company stock prices reflected optimism about the impact of the healthcare reform law's extension of coverage to millions of uninsured.
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To increase consumer use of cost and quality comparison tools, payers increasingly are turning to physicians and other providers, who long have resisted public release of comparative data.
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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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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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President Barack Obama last week touted an HHS report that found 2014 premiums for individual-market health plans in state-run insurance exchanges will be lower than those for comparable, currently available plans. But that HHS report didn't address rates in the federally run exchanges in 34...
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When Joseph R. Swedish was deciding whether to become CEO of WellPoint, he and his wife sat down to list reasons why he should go to the troubled insurer rather than continue leading Trinity Health.
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Shares of WellPoint Inc. hit an all-time high Wednesday, after the nation's second-largest health insurer trounced second-quarter earnings expectations and detailed how it expects to benefit from the health care overhaul and other growth opportunities over the next few years.
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A CMS rule issued in early July has set off a scramble among state officials to finalize and submit an application needed to implement their Medicaid expansions allowed by the healthcare reform law. The delay in the rule may push states hard up against the Oct. 1 start of the Medicaid enrollment...
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Regarding “WellPoint to pay $1.7 million HIPAA penalty”: WellPoint is just the tip of the iceberg. Since all of our personal phone messages, e-mails and Internet correspondence have been tapped into by the National Security Agency, why would we even be concerned about our medical...
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