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Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Cuomo Raises $20 Million For Physician Rate Database
By Allison BellCIGNA Corp. and WellPoint Inc. have agreed to contribute $10 million each to helping to start a service that will replace the Ingenix physician fee service.
February 16, 2009
Humana Opens Service OfficeA health insurer has cut the ribbon on a 37,000-square-foot care coordination center.
February 16, 2009
Business Reducing Term DI Backs Loans When Firms Change HandsThe oldest baby boomers are starting to sell thousands of dental practices, body repair shops and other capital-intensive businesses to younger buyers...
February 16, 2009
Principal Network Moves Into DallasA Midwestern health insurer is expanding a proprietary health care provider network program into a new market.
February 16, 2009
'Comfort and Joy'?A few paces from Chicago's Magnificent Mile where holiday shoppers were at the ready with their credit cards, consumer advocates were recounting how another kind of debt runs up.
February 15, 2009
Shrinking PayrollsDismal economic conditions suggest that worksite benefits marketers may be tested by falling enrollments as businesses lay off staff...
February 13, 2009
What's In The Stimulus Bill? (Updated)News about the contents of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act conference report is dribbling out drop by drop.
February 13, 2009
Link To H.R. 1 Conference Report SummaryHere is a link to the conference report version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, along with some excerpts.