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SEC Launches Formal Investigation Into UnitedHealth's Stock-Option Grant Practices
...Guire and 500,000 options to Stephen J. Hemsley -- likely had been backdated. Backdating can be used to take advantage of low points in a company's stock price, thereby making the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 27, 2006
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Health Insurance Execs Talk Expansion as Medicare Open Enrollment Nears
...Directed Plans: Too Complex? David Cordani, president, Cigna HealthCare: Early findings from our 12-month study...indicates that Cigna members increasingly are engaged in managing ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 13, 2006
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Visionary Is Lost With Departure of UnitedHealth's McGuire After Stock-Option Scandal
The departure of Dr. William W. McGuire as head of UnitedHealth Group Inc. amid a stock-option scandal means the loss of a visionary whose ideas helped change the U.S. health-care ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 23, 2006
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Senators Want Details on UnitedHealth Chief's Compensation, Exit Package
Officer William McGuire. In letters to three company officials from Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Max Baucus, D-Mont. -- the committee's chairman and ranking member -- the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 19, 2006
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Health Plans, Pharmacies Roll Out Guide to Medicare Drug Plans
The trade association that represents most U.S. health plans and health insurers is joining with groups representing national chain drug stores and local community pharmacists to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 16, 2006
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UnitedHealth Group Consolidates Medicare Advantage Businesses Under Single National Brand
...Care Health Systems Inc., which it acquired in December 2005. UnitedHealth's Ovations unit, which specializes in health services for people age 50 and older, launched ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 17, 2006
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UnitedHealth Delays Filing Second-Quarter 10-Q Pending Stock-Options Review
...Health said in a statement. During the 13-year period under review, the health insurer said it made more than 45,000 separate option grants to about 15,000 people. If the company ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 10, 2006
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House Member Seeks to Reopen Medicare Part D Enrollment
Senate bill that is about to see a vote. Gillmor's bill, H.R. 5596, would create an open enrollment period for Medicare's Part D drug benefit which would end Nov. 15. Under the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 16, 2006
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Medicare Part D Education Becomes New Focus for Health Plans
Education is a big part of improving that experience. Joan Herman, president and chief executive officer of specialty, senior and state-sponsored programs for WellPoint Inc., said ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 13, 2006
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Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth, Subsidiaries Fixed Prices in Medicare Part D Contracts
The company, based in Covington, Ky., says it is the largest provider of professional pharmacy for skilled nursing, assisted living and other institutional health-care providers in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 19, 2006
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UnitedHealth Board to Act on Changes to Executive Compensation
...Guire said in a statement. Institutional Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders withhold votes from Johnson and Mundinger "for failure to perform their fiduciary ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 28, 2006
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UnitedHealth's First-Quarter Profit Rises 21%; Insurer Feels Effects of PacifiCare, Medicare
...Care Health Systems Inc. and the new Medicare Part D prescription-drug program, the health insurer said. UnitedHealth's Ovation's Part D business served 4.5 million seniors at ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 18, 2006
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Louisiana Health Insurers Face Mighty Task of Rebuilding Provider Networks After Katrina
Most hospitals in the flood area still haven't reopened. Health-care providers evacuated along with the rest of the population, the company noted. Some amount of providers may not ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 27, 2006
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Mergers, Medicare & Medical Cost Management Boost U.S. Health Insurers Profits in 2005
...Care combined enrolled 4.3 million seniors in Medicare Part D plans, including those affiliated with Medicare Advantage programs with Part D benefits. In addition to Medicare, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 6, 2006
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Health Plans Are Still Eager to Tackle Part D Challenge
...Mart stores, Sam's Club locations and Neighborhood Markets. But the process has not been without its challenges, noted William Fleming, Humana's vice president of pharmacy. Despite ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 21, 2006
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California Regulators Approve $9.2 Billion Merger of UnitedHealthGroup-PacifiCare
...Health Group and PacifiCare Health Systems Inc., but the companies must ensure that Californians won't pay for the merger via increased premiums and that they will provide $250 ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 20, 2005
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UnitedHealth Group Enrolls 2 Million Members in Medicare Drug Plans
Medicare Advantage prescription-drug plans. The company said it has seen "a sharp increase" in online enrollment on the AARP-endorsed prescription-drug plan's Web site and that ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 16, 2005
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Experts Differ on How Best to Manage Pharmacy Benefits in Medicare Part D
...Part D" drug benefit program. But industry experts offer differing perspectives on how best to effectively manage pharmacy benefits in light of the landmark opportunity, which is ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 5, 2005
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U.S. Health Insurers Take Profits on Falling Costs, Membership Gains
Most all of the major, publicly traded U.S. health insurers' third-quarter 2005 profits rose on decreasing medical costs and gains in medical membership through acquisitions. Net ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 23, 2005
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PacifiCare Shareholders Approve $8.1 Billion Merger With UnitedHealth Group
...Care Health Systems Inc. said that its shareholders overwhelmingly approved UnitedHealth Group's proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of the company. More than 99% of the votes were ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 18, 2005
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