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New York's Empire Blue Shrinks Small-Business Offerings, Cuts Commissions and Seeks Rate Hikes
The withdrawals involve Empire "simplifying" the plans, O'Keefe said. Inside its PPO, for example, Empire offered 14 plan designs concerning co-payments, coinsurance and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 11, 2011
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Anthem Blue Cross Gets Lower Rate Hike Than Requested From Connecticut
Connecticut Insurance Department. The individual plans include preferred provider organizations, health savings accounts and health maintenance organizations, Tommelleo said. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 30, 2011
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WellPoint, Michigan Blues, Health Care Service Team Up on Employer Health Exchange
Health Care Service Corp. and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are teaming up to offer a private, online health insurance exchange geared to employers ahead of the state-based ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 21, 2011
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WellPoint CEO: 1Q Profit Helped by Low Medical Costs in Commercial Plans
Net income for the largest U.S. health insurer by medical enrollment rose to $926.6 million and included $35.6 million in net investment gains, after-tax. First-quarter results ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 27, 2011
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UnitedHealth Group's 1Q Profit Up 12.6% on Lower Medical Costs; Raises Full-Year Outlook
...Health (NYSE: UNH) during the earnings conference call. UnitedHealth Group is the largest U.S. health insurer by revenue. In its commercial health business, UnitedHealthcare grew ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 21, 2011
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Medicare Advantage Plans Could Soften Payment Cuts With Rating Program
Avalere Health, a health care advisory firm. "Plans that have been taking quality metrics seriously are at a significant advantage going into 2012." Health reform contains $202 ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 20, 2010
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Blue Cross of Georgia, Commissioner in Legal Battle Over Clauses in Hospital Contracts
Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine in Fulton County Superior Court earlier this year. The companies, according to their complaint, are challenging a directive the commissioner ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 14, 2010
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Conn.'s Acting Commissioner Rejects Anthem Blue's Request to Raise Premiums by 20%
Acting Insurance Commissioner Barbara C. Spear adopted the recommendations of hearing officer Mark R. Franklin concerning Anthem's application for the rate increase on its ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 6, 2010
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Conn. Insurance Regulator: Criticism Over Anthem Rate Hikes Unrelated to Resignation
But Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan does have some criticism of his own for the reform that spurred Anthem's filing for the hikes. Some in the media speculated the two ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 9, 2010
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Conn. Commissioner Sets Hearing on Anthem Blue's 2011 Premium-Hike Requests
Sullivan said in a statement. Just days after a consumer advocacy group called for Sullivan to step down for approving large premium rate increases since passage of the health ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 5, 2010
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Conn. Insurance Commissioner to Resign After Dust-Ups with Advocacy, Auto Body Groups
Rell that he will resign from the post Nov. 12. In addition, the Auto Body Association of Connecticut had called for his ouster, saying Sullivan hurt small businesses and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 2, 2010
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Advocacy Group: Connecticut Commissioner Should Go over Rate Hikes
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Citizens for Economic Opportunity, comprised of advocacy groups and labor unions, called on Gov. M. Jodi Rell to remove Sullivan for ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 26, 2010
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HHS Tells Conn. Insurance Commissioner to Scrutinize Anthem Blues' Rate Hikes
Blumenthal wrote in a letter to Sullivan (BestWire, Sept. 22, 2010). "The consumers of Connecticut expect and deserve transparency and a fact-based rationale as to why their rates ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 19, 2010
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Aetna Last of Four Insurers Approved in California for Double-Digit Premium Rate Hikes
All of the rate increases take effect Oct. 1. In June, the insurance department said it would now require requests for premium rate increases by top health insurers in the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 21, 2010
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NAIC Nears Completion of MLR Recommendations
Department of Health and Human Services. A proposal before the Blanks Working Group and the Health Reform Solvency Working Group includes an array of specific criteria. On federal ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 5, 2010
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Anthem Blue Cross of California Names Former Aetna Executive as New President
Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP). Before Aetna, she worked in several sales and operations leadership positions for WellPoint's California market. Last week, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 27, 2010
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President of WellPoint's Anthem Blue in California Leaves Post
Cross said in a statement. The exit comes less than three months after the health plan withdrew its request to raise premiums by up to 39% on members in its individual health plans ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 21, 2010
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U.S. Health Reform Spurs Battles in States Over Premium Rate Increases
Since the passage of U.S. health care reform, battles have erupted in some states between insurance commissioners and health insurers over double-digit premium rate increases ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 19, 2010
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US Regulators, Insurers, Work Out Gray Areas of Medical Costs
Avalere Health, a health care advisory firm. The Department of Health and Human Services has discretion as to how it will define it, he said. The agency wants to define it so most ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 10, 2010
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Conn. Supreme Court Denies State Workers' Claim on $127 Million in Anthem Stock Proceeds
Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. In a 6-1 decision, the court ruled the state, under then-Gov. John Rowland, was within its rights to use the funds to close a budget gap. Former ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 7, 2010
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