Archives for January 2014
January 30, 2014-Aetna CEO: We May Have to Pull Out of Obamacare, or Heavily Hike Premiums30 Jan 2014
Thursday January 30, 2014 Home | Subscribe Payer Advisory Weekly Top Stories BlueCross CEO Bill Gracey takes health care personally... Continue Reading
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Highmark: P4P saves $11.5 million23 Jan 2014
Participating Highmark Inc. health care providers improved quality performance measures by 26 percent while reducing medical costs by $11.5 million... Continue Reading
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Cigna, Physician Health Partners Form ACO23 Jan 2014
In continuation of its strategy to enhance its Collaborative Accountable Care (CAC) initiative, health insurer Cigna Corp. recently tied up... Continue Reading
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Target to drop health insurance for part-timers23 Jan 2014
Target Corp. said Tuesday that it will stop offering health insurance to its part-time employees because new online health exchanges... Continue Reading
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Indiana among WellPoint’s weakest exchange states23 Jan 2014
WellPoint Inc. CEO Joe Swedish declared last week he was “very cautiously optimistic” about the Obamacare exchanges. “Rather than saying... Continue Reading
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Cigna Individual Health Plans Go Multilingual23 Jan 2014
Cigna, a leading international health insurer, is excited to announce the launch of local language sales and service capabilities for... Continue Reading
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It looks like UnitedHealth is acquiring Audax Health Solutions23 Jan 2014
UnitedHealth Group is poised to acquire digital health company Audax Health Solutions according to a filing with the Federal Trade... Continue Reading
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Aetna could be forced out of Obamacare: CEO23 Jan 2014
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC on Wednesday that Obamacare has failed to attract the uninsured, and he offered a... Continue Reading
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Premera Blue Cross launches nutrition platform Serve it Up!23 Jan 2014
Premera Blue Cross has launched its nutrition-focused online platform and app, called Serve it Up!, in partnership with social platform... Continue Reading
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Blue Cross customers struggle with new health coverage23 Jan 2014
Double-billing on policies. Conflicting information. No insurance cards. Four-hour waits to talk to a customer service agent. That’s a sample... Continue Reading
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