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If health insurance companies announce big premium increases on policies for 2015, I hope regulators, lawmakers and the media will look closely at whether they are justified, especially in light of recent disclosures of better-than-expected profits in 2013, rosy...
There’s a big management change coming at Highmark. Out is Dr. Will Winkenwerder, who has served as president and CEO for the last two years, and in is David Holmberg, who has run Highmark’s for-profit businesses and been with the company since 2007. Winkenwerder, a...
UnitedHealth Group Inc., once leery of Obamacare’s new health insurance exchanges, is starting new plans in at least two states as competition grows stiffer in the government-run marketplaces. In Washington state, four insurers plan to sell for the first time on the...
Kaiser Permanente and Blue Shield of California have contributed $23.8 million to defeat a November ballot initiative that would allow California's insurance commissioner to deny health premium increases seen as excessive. The funding went to Californians Against...
Georgia State officials said Tuesday that they plan to increase the number of insurers and health plan options for state employees and teachers next year. The State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP) has been a target of fierce criticism since Jan. 1. That’s when changes to...
The Sunday paper isn't the only game in town when it comes to printed grocery coupons: Some health insurers are sending discount mailers to consumers as an incentive to eat healthier. By their measures, at least, there's some evidence that it's working. Among...
The region’s two biggest Medicare Advantage plan sponsors say they are reviewing government reimbursement rates for next year before making any decision about member benefits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued the fiscal 2015 rates for...
Online reviews, quality ratings and price comparisons are commonplace for people shopping for everything from restaurants to cars. Before long, experts say health care consumers could have easy access to similar information about doctors and hospitals, as the...
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 Blue...
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...
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...
Many of us know the names of some of the big U.S. health insurance companies — like Blue Cross, Aetna and Wellpoint. But what about CoOportunity Health, or Health Republic Insurance of New York? These are among 23 new companies started under the Affordable Care Act....
