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Breaking the mold | Swedish to lead WellPoint through reform's changes
By Jaimy Lee | February 16, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
If the business model for the health insurance industry has to change, so should its leadership. That's the strategy that WellPoint is taking by tapping a hospital executive as its new CEO.
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Swedish leaving Trinity Health to become CEO of WellPoint
By Ashok Selvam | February 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Trinity Health President and CEO Joseph Swedish was named to succeed Angela Braly at the helm of WellPoint, one of the nation's largest health insurers, effective March 25.
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WellPoint's 4Q profit jumps 38%
By Associated Press | January 23, 2013
WellPoint's fourth-quarter earnings jumped 38% compared to the final quarter of 2011, when the nation's second largest health insurer incurred a big hit from its Medicare Advantage business.
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OIG finds widespread Herceptin overcharges
By Joe Carlson | January 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited.
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WellPoint acquires Amerigroup
By Atlanta Business Chronicle | December 26, 2012
WellPoint has completed its acquisition of Amerigroup Corp., WellPoint announced. Amerigroup will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary within WellPoint.
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Mixed bag | Value of healthcare deals down, insurers see surge
By Paul Barr | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The total dollar value of healthcare deals fell sharply in the third quarter of this year, despite a surge in the value of deals in the insurer segment of the industry.
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Justice Department OKs WellPoint's $4.9 billion acquisition of Amerigroup
By Paul Barr | November 28, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Justice Department gave the go-ahead to WellPoint's $4.9 billion agreement to buy Amerigroup Corp. as a result of Amerigroup's deal to sell its Virginia subsidiary to Inova Health System Foundation, though a hearing in Washington state is delaying the closing of the WellPoint deal.
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Hospital stocks rise; insurers take hit
By Beth Kutscher | November 07, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Hospital stocks reacted with optimism to the news that President Barack Obama had won a second term—as the fate of the healthcare reform law becomes even more certain.
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Health insurer M&A activity could break 9-year record by end of 2012: analysis
By Matt Dunning, Crain's Business Insurance | October 12, 2012
Just two weeks into the final quarter of the year, mergers and acquisitions activity among U.S. health insurers in 2012 could best high-water marks set nearly a decade ago, according to Charlottesville, Va.-based SNL Financial.
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WellPoint to reorganize in interim CEO's first major move
By Bloomberg | October 12, 2012
WellPoint, the second-biggest U.S. health insurer, will reorganize into four business units in the first major move undertaken by interim CEO John Cannon.
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