Chris Anderson
Angela Braly abruptly resigned yesterday as chairman and CEO of WellPoint amid a growing outcry from the investment community for her ouster driven by a slumping stock price and lagging earnings.
A new survey from tax audit and advisory firm KPMG shows wide ranging uncertainty among health plan, provider and pharmaceutical executives as to whether the existing business models are sustainable, despite the common belief that the broader healthcare economy is unsustainable in its current form.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) showed that half of all the billings paid by Medicare in 2010 to community mental health centers for the partial hospitalization program were questionable.
Medicare- and Medicaid-focused health insurers continue to be the darlings of the acquisition ball, as evidenced by yesterday's announcement that Aetna would purchase Coventry Health Care in a cash and stock deal valued at $5.7 billion.
If you were tired of the lies, half-truths and fear-mongering that has pervaded the health reform debate for the past three years, well strap on your hip waders, because it's about to get deep.
A new survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) shows that non-profit providers undergo a higher percentage of government audits than their for-profit peers.
An increase in the number of retail medical clinics across the country helped spur a four-fold increase in their use between 2007 and 2009 according to new research from the Rand Corp.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. earlier this week reported second quarter net income of $42 million or 10 cents per diluted share for the quarter ending June 30, compared to $40 million or 8 cents per diluted share for the second quarter of 2011.
Highmark, Western Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, took another step toward building a comprehensive provider network in the region with the announcement in June of a $275 million commitment to Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
While many private payers across the country have rushed to launch payment initiatives wrapped around healthcare delivery models like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.