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Consumers Union plans to rate hospitals

May 29, 2008 — 6:59am ET
The venerable organization behind the popular Consumer Reports magazine has announced that it's getting into the hospital ratings act. The publisher, Consumers Union, already offers assessments of... Read more...

Using claims data for doctor ratings poses big problems

May 23, 2008 — 6:59am ET
In theory, physician ratings and rankings aren't as scary as they used to be a few years ago. With activists like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo helping to spark systematic changes in such... Read more...

MA physician group files suit over rankings

May 22, 2008 — 6:59am ET
The Massachusetts Medical Society has filed suit to stop a scheme under which doctors are ranked using cost and quality metrics by health plans working with an agency overseeing health insurance... Read more...

Patients cut costs with faith-based health plans

March 14, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Increasingly, consumer premiums are going up, along with deductibles. In an effort to fight this trend, some consumers are enrolling in faith-based alternatives to health insurance, under which... Read more...

Health plan industry addressing policy cancellations

February 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Hoping to get some control of a situation that is rapidly deteriorating into a series of regulatory fines, lawsuits and heinously bad PR, the health-insurance industry is mounting an initiative to... Read more...

U.S. health plans propose to boost individual coverage

December 20, 2007 — 7:59am ET
Particularly in California, where denials of coverage have become almost a cottage industry, the individual health insurance market is in trouble. Now, leading health industry trade America's Health... Read more...

Groups work for single, shared quality standard

October 4, 2007 — 6:59am ET
A coalition of influential healthcare groups including the National Quality Forum and America's Health Insurance Plans have come together to create a single, consistent national approach to quality... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Congress considers wellness credits for employers; Coventry buys FL health plan for $685M; and much more...

July 9, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> Congress has begun considering a bill giving employers tax credits for providing employee wellness programs. Article

> Coventry Health Care has agreed to pick up Hollywood, Fla.-based Vista Healthplans for $685 million. Article

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Insurance-free CA hospital empire keeps growing

July 8, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

A maverick California cardiologist continues to expand his burgeoning hospital empire, which now stands to challenge some of the biggest chains in the state. While the rapid pace of his acquisition is drawing attention--he's acquired six hospitals during the past year alone--what's really got the industry buzzing is the fact he's canceling all of the hospitals' contracts with health insurance plans.

Dr. Prem Reddy's Prime Healthcare Services now owns eight hospitals in California, …

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SPOTLIGHT: Government takeover of healthcare not wise

June 28, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

 Government takeover of healthcare not wise
It looks like Michael Moore has upset the health insurance industry. In an op-ed in USA Today, America's Health Insurance Plans head Karen Ignani contends his documentary Sicko has "grossly" distorted how health insurance plans work. If the United States was to follow Moore's recommendation for a complete government takeover of healthcare, she suggests, chaos would follow. Article

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