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UnitedHealthcare to pay $250K fine in Ohio

July 29, 2008 — 10:53am ET | By Anne Zieger
Health plan UnitedHealthcare has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle with the state's Department of Insurance over letters it sent to policyholders concerning a health system in its network. The... Read more...

CMS makes Part D data available for patient-safety efforts

May 23, 2008 — 6:59am ET
CMS has issued final regulations that will make Medicare Part D claims data available to the FDA and other agencies, as well as academic researchers, for use in patient-safety initiatives. The FDA... Read more...

CIGNA launches site offering doctor, hospital rankings

May 23, 2008 — 6:59am ET
CIGNA has launched a national website ranking doctors and hospitals by cost and quality measures, along with providing its beneficiaries with several additional tools to help them obtain care. Not... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: New rules would limit Medicare marketing

May 9, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Federal regulators have proposed new rules that would set limits on the marketing of private Medicare health plans. The rules would ban unsolicited sales visits and phone calls to beneficiaries,... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: WellPoint exposes patient data; ED visits go up when OR trims Medicaid rolls; and much more...

April 25, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Security pros are lambasting WellPoint, which may have inadvertently allowed Web users to access data on 130,000 of its beneficiaries. Read more...

Medicare disease management pilot ending this year

April 24, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Three years ago, CMS hired eight private disease management firms to set up chronic care improvement programs for beneficiaries. The programs, which reached as many as 150,000 seniors enrolled in... Read more...

Los Angeles sues Anthem for individual policy cancellations

April 17, 2008 — 6:59am ET
The Los Angeles city attorney has sued Anthem Blue Cross for allegedly canceling coverage of thousands of members after they filed large medical claims. In doing so, it's following the lead of the... Read more...

Who pays for care when errors are made?

April 4, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Increasingly, health plans are beginning to follow Medicare's lead and refuse payment for at least some care related to medical errors. The most recent to take this step is WellPoint, the nation's... Read more...

MDs fight to keep Medicare pilot program

March 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
An article in The Tennessean reports that, according to Healthways, more than 300 doctors, group practices and health systems are fighting to continue a pilot program that provides support for... Read more...

Blue Cross plans push wellness

March 20, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The nation's fourth largest health insurance company has kicked off an initiative that focuses on using its resources more on patient wellness. Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., whose... Read more...
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