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The nation's fourth largest insurer is calling on the leader of its flagship plan to manage technology and services across its regions, while ushering in a new president at the 7 million member company.
After transitioning from tax-exempt nonprofit to a tax-paying, mutually-owned company, Michigan's largest health insurer is in pretty good financial health.
Over the past decade, states have slashed workers' compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers.
Middle-age American men have been aggressively marketed treatments for low testosterone, despite risks and skepticism about benefits. Now insurers have another reason to strictly control coverage.
In the state with the highest per-capita healthcare spending, most of the mainstay insurers spent the last year struggling to harvest operating income.
Improving economy helps more low-income patients pay their balances in states that did not expand under Obamacare.
2015 is going to be yet another busy year for health plans with the ICD-10 cutover scheduled for October and Operating Rules penalties (still in the rulemaking process) kicking in on Jan. 1, 2016.
The simple assurance that Republicans have a plan to avoid any major disruption to Obamacare from an adverse Supreme Court ruling may not be so simple.
One of the largest Blue Cross insurers in the American South has taken its first loss in 15 years, showing the challenges of the two main growth areas, ACA plans and Medicare Advantage.
Health insurers treading in legacy business processes are turning to contractors for help ply the new waters of reform, fueling an $8 billion market of its own.