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NewsACOs taking hold in California for cost savings
Like the early pioneers of the West, California is proving to be a hot spot of the accountable care organization (ACO) experiment. Under healthcare reform, hospitals, providers, and insurers are Read more...
Proposed ACA rule: Insurers face tighter rate review
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new Affordable Care Act regulation to protect consumers from sky-high rate increases like the Anthem Blue Cross' 39 percent rate hike that Read more...
California hospitals overbilled insurers to make up for lost profits, analysis concludes
California hospitals hospitals charged insurers 53 percent more than the cost of services they provided, according to an analysis of financial information from 300 hospitals between September 2008 Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Anthem Blue Cross faces class-action lawsuit as rate hike decision looms
Up to 800,000 individual policy holders with Anthem Blue Cross in California could soon learn whether the health plan will move forward with planned rate increases as high as 39 percent, reports the Read more...
California health insurers may need state approval for future rate increases
Health insurance companies in California may soon have to provide justification for any rate increases higher than 7 percent per year if the state assembly's health committee gets its way. Read more...
Health insurer financial records subpoenaed in rate hike probe
The seven largest health insurance companies in California have until March 8 to deliver subpoenaed financial records and other documents to the state Attorney General Jerry Brown. The records will Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: WellPoint's Braly calls raised premiums 'prudent'
WellPoint president Angela Braly told a Congressional committee yesterday that the recent rise in premium hikes by Anthem Blue Cross, a WellPoint subsidiary, was not something she or the company Read more...
Anthem Blue Cross takes a grilling in Calif., plans to push forward with rate hikes
After undergoing a tough grilling by California lawmakers this week, Wellpoint's Anthem Blue Cross says it California-based premium increases of up to 39 percent are fair and legal, and plans to make Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Anthem Blue Cross in hot water for more than 700 state violations
The fun continues for California health insurer Anthem Blue Cross. After being highly scrutinized for announcing plans to hike premium rates for some members by as much as 39 percent, the insurer now Read more...
Feds seek oversight of insurers' rate increases
Zeroing in on public outrage about planned double-digit rate hikes by Anthem Blue Cross and other health insurers, the Obama administration wants the federal government to have the power to conduct Read more...
| Press ReleasesStanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Complete New Health Plan Agreement with Anthem Blue CroPALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital today announced the completion of a new health insurance provider agreement with Anthem Read more >> Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Completes New Health Plan Agreement With Blue Shield of CaliforniaPALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital today announced the successful completion of a new health insurance provider agreement with Blue Shield of California, Read more >> Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Continue to Treat All Patients With Anthem Blue Cross aHospitals Assure Patients that Out-of-Pocket Costs Will Remain The Same STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Packard Read more >> XDx Announces Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Has Determined That AlloMap® Is Medically Necessary for Heart Transplant RDemonstrates Increased Payer Coverage for AlloMap BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- XDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialization of clinically Read more >> Anthem Blue Cross and Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo Collaborate to Help Kids Get Active through "Exergaming"WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 30 percent of California's children and adolescents are overweight or obese, Read more >> |
