As the big five health insurers aim to become the big three, mental health advocates are requesting regulators closely scrutinize the mega-mergers, according to The Washington Post.
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A Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana program aimed at helping chronic diseases has cut costs by $25 per patient per month over the past two years, according to The Advocate.
Molina Healthcare saw its net income increase in the third quarter of fiscal year 2015, as the insurer benefited from premium revenue growth.
Anthem saw its net income increase in the third quarter of 2015, even as the payer lost nearly 70,000 members from the individual exchanges.
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna $37 billion acquisition net income of $560.1 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015, up 6 percent over the same period last year, thanks to strong cash flow and operating margins. The payer's total revenue…
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Physicians generally say health insurance companies interfere with their ability to provide high quality care, according to a poll by ReviveHealth. The factor that influences this most is the amount of coverage plans provide and the number of claims denials,…
In the patient-payer-provider triad, payers are not fully capitalizing on their relationships, according to Rena Xu, MD, a resident physician at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and contributor to The New Yorker.
The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act could be making enrollees pay additional money for specialist care, according to a study published in JAMA.
After agreeing to a class-action lawsuit settlement, one of California's largest health insurers, Anthem Blue Cross, will refund $8.3 million to approximately 50,000 policyholders, according to the San Francisco Business Times.