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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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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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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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The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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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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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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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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