by Keith Kuhn | Apr 19, 2014 | Payor
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald lobbed the health insurance coverage of the county’s 6,700 employees and their families as the latest salvo in the war between Highmark and UPMC. Fitzgerald announced on Tuesday that the county would stick with Highmark...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 18, 2014 | Industry
Apple could be looking to health insurance companies to help subsidize its rumored iWatch fitness bands in the same way that wireless carriers subsidize the cost of smartphones. That speculation comes from Timothy Arcuri, an analyst with Cowen & Co. He raised the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 18, 2014 | Industry, Payor
A little more than two years after Aetna acquired popular mobile health app-maker iTriage, its cofounders — two emergency medical doctors — Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra have quietly left the health insurance company, MobiHealthNews has learned. A departure after a...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 17, 2014 | Payor, Reimbursement
U.S. health insurers said on Tuesday they still expected cuts in government reimbursements for privately managed Medicare health plans for the elderly next year even after the White House administration rolled back the steepest reductions. The government agency that...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 17, 2014 | Government
Kathleen Sebelius has resigned after serving five years as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to replace Sebelius, news...
