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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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On Day 1 of open enrollment, insurance stocks jump
By Beth Kutscher | October 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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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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Three additional managed-care contracts awarded in Ky. for state exchange
By Rachel Landen | September 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services awarded contracts to three additional managed-care organizations to provide healthcare coverage to residents newly eligible for Medicaid under the state's plan to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Humana, Centene to target fraudsters by pooling data with analytics firm
By Joseph Conn | August 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
To more effectively identify healthcare providers committing fraud, a national insurer and a multistate payer have announced a plan to pool data with a third-party risk analytics firm.
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Colorado releases insurance exchange rates
By Kristen Wyatt / Associated Press | August 16, 2013
Coloradans without health insurance found out Friday what it will cost them to comply with the insurance mandate taking effect next year.
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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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Humana sues Farmers over Medicare secondary payer practices
By Sheena Harrison, Crain's Business Insurance | July 26, 2013
Humana has filed four federal lawsuits against Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. and related entities, arguing that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act entitles it to reimbursement from Farmers for benefits that Humana paid for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans.
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Humana to sell policies in unserved Miss. counties
By Jeff Amy / Associated Press | July 19, 2013
All Mississippians will have at least one insurance option on the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October.
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Alabama covered entirely by insurance exchange
By Phillip Rawls / Associated Press | July 14, 2013
Alabama should have no counties left out of a federally operated health insurance exchange because three companies have proposed insurance plans and two of the companies want to cover the entire state.
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