WellPoint news and information

WellPoint shareholders last week elected newly minted CEO Joseph Swedish to a three-year term on the company's board of directors. Three directors resigned in the days leading up to the May 15 annual meeting, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Dr. Lenox Baker...
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WellPoint's first-quarter earnings rose about 3% to trump analysts' expectations, as the nation's second-largest health insurer saw a revenue gain from an acquisition. It also raised its 2013 net income forecast.
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Joseph Swedish resigned from his position as chairman of the Catholic Health Association's board of trustees, a role he has held since June 2012.
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The compensation paid to outgoing WellPoint CEO Angela Braly last year rose 56%, even as the company's shares slid on lower enrollment in its health plans.
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Small business groups and some lawmakers want the White House to reverse course on plans to wait one year to give workers at small firms a choice among health plans obtained through new exchanges.
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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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Many hospitals that expect to see less from Medicare starting next month will spend less themselves under efforts to slash costs. Executives say they'll have no choice as pressure to curb healthcare spending grows.
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Joseph Swedish, outgoing president and CEO of Trinity Health, talks with Modern Healthcare Editor Merrill Goozner about being selected as the next CEO of the insurer WellPoint.
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WellPoint says it will raise the quarterly dividend it pays shareholders by 30%. The announcement comes about week after its stock started slipping after it named a new CEO.
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The decades-old quest to bring artificial intelligence to bear on everyday healthcare decisionmaking is moving inexorably forward, according to health informatics experts.
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