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Personnel Changes: Symetra, The Marketing Alliance, Evolution, Health Plan One
By Ashley ScudderSymetra Life Insurance Company has hired John Richter to be vice president of national accounts.
February 10, 2011
CIGNA Network Reaches AfghanistanCIGNA Corp. has arranged for 20,000 health plan enrollees in Afghanistan to get in-network care at clinics on air bases in Kandahar and Bagram.
February 10, 2011
Berwick: Medicare Advantage Changes WorkedDr. Donald Berwick says the changes that the Affordable Care Act made in the Medicare Advantage program are working better than critics had expected, and he is predicting that the act will continue to make Medicare stronger.
February 10, 2011
PPACA: Money TalkCongressional committees have been grilling many federal agency officials about the cost of federal health programs in recent days and have more health cost hearings on their calendars.
February 10, 2011
CIGNA Network Reaches AfghanistanCIGNA Corp. has arranged for 20,000 health plan enrollees in Afghanistan to get in-network care at clinics on air bases in Kandahar and Bagram.
February 10, 2011
PPACA: Federal PCIP Risk Pool Enrollment Reaches 12,437The federal Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan program -- a program that has the capacity to cover about 200,000 uninsured people with serious health problems -- had 12,437 enrollees Feb. 1, officials say.
February 10, 2011
Majority of clinical drug trials exclude senior patientsDespite the fact that seniors consume more medications than any other age demographic, more than half of clinical drug trials in the U.S. exclude elderly patients.
February 10, 2011
PPACA: Money TalkCongressional committees have been grilling many federal agency officials about the cost of federal health programs in recent days and have more health cost hearings on their calendars.