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Blue Crossâ€™ surplus falls 34.5% in â€™07  -  25 Mar 2008
Arkansas Democrat Gazette,Heuer said customers were shifting from the companyâ€™s fullyinsured products to self-insured plans and to an HMO product, HMO partners, that Blue Cross owns

Are You In Therapy?  -  25 Mar 2008
Huffington Post,I signed up with an HMO that handled university students. It was the university I went to for my masters, so I figured it would be good to give back.

Answers About Health in New York  -  25 Mar 2008
New York Times,I was assured on my last back operation that I was covered for everything, only to get a bill from the surgeon because my HMO refused to pay him.

Support for libraries overdue  -  25 Mar 2008
Boston Globe,The city hopes to save even more by offering an HMO option located in Rhode Island. In Tewksbury, the Board of Selectmen issued a January report with a long

Life Denied: Nurses, Family of Sick Teen March on Health Insurance ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),...and a Department of Managed Health Care investigation found that the corporation wrongly denied claims in 30 percent of its HMO cases in 2006-7.

With the End of Steerage, Toledo, Ohio Consumers Given Choice of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),However, Paramount Health Care, which has more than 70 percent of fully insured commercial HMO enrollment in the region, continues to direct patients toward

Prospect Medical Holdings Announces Positive Conclusion to Alta Review  -  Mar 24, 2008
WELT ONLINE,Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. (AMEX: PZZ) ("Prospectâ€?), which manages the medical care of approximately 240000 HMO enrollees and operates four community

Mansfield officials say 'ouch'  -  Mar 23, 2008
Attleboro Sun Chronicle,More school employees have chosen to join a preferred provider organization (PPO) plan than a health maintenance organization (HMO) plan, and PPO plans are

Medica Foundation 2007 Second Cycle Funding Addresses Prevention ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
InfoBolsa,Healthy Lifestyles 24/03/2008 15:56:00 Business Wire foundation and a sister organization to Medica Health Plans, a Minnesota-based nonprofit HMO.

Humana's Warning Is Latest Symptom Of HMO Sickness  -  Mar 12, 2008
CNNMoney.comThe HMO nearly halved its first-quarter profit forecast to 44 cents to 46 cents a share. Wall Street expected 84 cents. Humana blamed higher-than-expected

HMO Stocks Look Like Bargains  -  Mar 20, 2008
Seeking Alpha,HMOs are a beaten-up group that have recently suffered due to estimate cuts for 2008. Despite that, the newly revised EPS projections make this one of the

Aetna Affirms 2008 Outlook After Rocky HMO Week  -  Mar 14, 2008
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Aetna Inc (AET.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday affirmed its 2008 profit outlook following a rocky week for health insurers,

WellPoint warning may long haunt HMO stocks  -  Mar 11, 2008
ReutersBy Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - WellPoint Inc (WLP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) may have just shot down any investor hopes that US health insurers

Medicare HMO rep solves healthcare mysteries  -  Mar 17, 2008
MiamiHerald.com,The Medicare HMO created the Outbound Team, as it's cheerfully called, shortly after it was founded about five years ago to distinguish it from the pack.

HTO JOB OF THE DAY  -  Mar 24, 2008
TAXI Design Network,During the contract period, you will be paid on a weekly basis through Aquent and have access to a robust benefits package including PPO and HMO options,

Day 3 of Frugality Week: Get an HMO  -  Feb 26, 2008
Inquirer.net,My 2-year old son was hospitalized again last week and it got me thinking about whether it makes good sense to get a health card.

Priority Health earnings declined in '07  -  Mar 19, 2008
MLive.com,The financial data includes combined results for 2006 and 2007 with the former Southfield-based CareChoices HMO, which Priority Health acquired in April 1,

Saving on Prescriptions Just Got Easier for Many CIGNA Members  -  Mar 24, 2008
WELT ONLINE,All 23 of the CIGNA HealthCare HMO and POS plans that have undergone NCQA accreditation review, hold Excellent Accreditation status.

Phyhealth Submits HMO Applications with Required Federal and State ...  -  Mar 12, 2008
PR Newswire (press release),We have received confirmation from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that the deadline for submitting our 2009 Medicare Advantage HMO -- Part C

Anthem increases hold on Indiana  -  Mar 21, 2008
Indianapolis Business Journal,Through its HMO and a provider network, M-Plan could negotiate health care prices on behalf of 705000 customers. Carmel-based Sagamore Health Network sold

Fast Eddie bombshell  -  Mar 19, 2008
Chicago Sun-Times,The former lawyer, business consultant and HMO magnate testified he once passed bribes to former powerhouse Ald. Edward "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak,

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)  -  Mar 9, 2008
ClinicalMind,As the name actually implies, an HMO places emphasis on maintaining optimal health through regular visits to your doctor. The idea is that most major

Road to faster HMO care proves a rocky one  -  Mar 9, 2008
Sacramento Bee,By Aurelio Rojas - arojas@sacbee.com Six years after the California Legislature passed a law requiring the state to adopt regulations to ensure HMO patients

HMO Health  -  Mar 11, 2008
CNBC,On a day where the stock market is posting the biggest single-session gains in over five years, thereâ€™s one big sector that isnâ€™t getting any of the love:

Aetnaâ€™s California HMO plan is first in the state to achieve ...  -  Mar 5, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),Aetna Health of California is currently the only HMO in the state that has been accredited by NCQA for meeting or exceeding its rigorous requirements for

Healthcare advocates to get some state help  -  Mar 18, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Complaints to the HMO Help Center involving customer service nearly doubled to 442 in 2007 from 265 in 2006. In response, the department levied more than $5

Lois Henry: Get pushy with HMO to get things done  -  Mar 2, 2008
Bakersfield Californian (subscription),If penicillin were invented today, would your HMO balk at letting your doctor prescribe it for a â€œroutineâ€? infection? Canâ€™t you just hear their response?

Metropolitan Health Networks Reports 2007 Results of Operations  -  Mar 4, 2008
FOXBusinessMetropolitan served a total of 31600 Medicare Advantage customers in December 2007 with 6200 enrolled in the company's HMO and 25400 being served by the PSN

Levine's largesse  -  Mar 20, 2008
Chicago Sun-Times,The millionaire attorney and HMO magnate from Highland Park preferred to give to Republicans -- especially his old law school classmate, former Illinois

Q & A of the Day - Local Authority HMO requirements  -  Feb 27, 2008
Voltimum (subscription),This one, about Local Authority HMO requirements requirements, is answered by SELECT: Question: I have just begun to get a number of calls from landlords

HMO shamed, sued into changing bad policy  -  Feb 27, 2008
Los Angeles Daily News,It should not take a $9 million legal judgment and a mountain of bad press to convince one of the state's largest health-insurance companies to stop

Palisade Systems Data Loss Prevention Technology Deployed at Large ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
Earthtimes,AMES, Iowa, March 3 -- Palisade Systems, a leading provider of content monitoring and filtering and information leak prevention products, announced today

Medica Foundation 2007 Second Cycle Funding Addresses Prevention ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The Medica Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable grant-making foundation and a sister organization to Medica Health Plans, a Minnesota-based nonprofit HMO.

I hope they have learnedâ€¦  -  Mar 21, 2008
Blue Springs Examiner,Donâ€™t enter a sweetheart deal, with an HMO to close TWO hospitals to open one. And remember HCAâ€™s comment, there are way to many OLD SICK people in that

Health plans push harder for use of generic drugs, not as ...  -  Mar 8, 2008
MLive.com,But his HMO, Priority Health, declined to pay for it, suggesting Olson try other generic drugs that his doctor insists are not as effective at preventing

Limited coverage  -  Feb 28, 2008
Ha'aretz,By Esti Ahronovitz Millions of Israelis have taken out long-term nursing care insurance, most of them via the Clalit HMO and the Dikla Insurance Company.

Private-market answer to rising costs has critics  -  Mar 6, 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution,By ANDY MILLER In her old health care world, Karen Zapata used only HMO doctors, faced high insurance premiums and forked out the inevitable co-payments.

MetLife subsidiary planning to layoff workers in San Antonio  -  Mar 24, 2008
Bizjournals.com,SafeGuard provides dental and vision benefit products in Texas, California, Florida and Nevada through HMO subsidiaries in these states, as well as through

Care to Care Begins Providing Radiology Benefit Management ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
FOXBusinessTouchstone Health, headquartered in New York City, is an HMO focused on the Medicare market. Touchstone Health currently has Medicare beneficiaries in the

UnitedHealth Group Completes Acquisition of Sierra Health Services  -  Feb 25, 2008
WELT ONLINE,As a condition of approval, UnitedHealth Group will divest its individual SecureHorizons Medicare Advantage HMO plans in Clark and Nye Counties,

Horizon NJ Health Chooses HealthTrans To Provide Pharmacy Claims ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Headquartered in West Trenton, NJ, Horizon NJ Health, a partnership, is a product of Horizon HMO. Horizon HMO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizon Blue

Day 5 of Frugality Week: Pay credit card balance in full  -  Feb 28, 2008
Inquirer.net,Mammu: Go for a good HMO if you can afford it and maximize usage by... Jojo Veloso: i have experienced a lot of HMO from my but what i can recom.

Sutter hides health costs  -  Mar 7, 2008
Bizjournals.com,Excluding those higher-cost facilities from its Blue Shield HMO network has resulted in an estimated $122 million in savings over the last three years,

County Employees Concerned About Pay  -  Mar 18, 2008
Arlington Connection,Currently, employees and retirees can choose from a Point of Service health care plan or an HMO. According to Arlington County Human Resources Department

Recycling plans extended to more homes in Swansea  -  Mar 18, 2008
Media Newswire (press release),The plans mean that approximately 1000 HMO's in the Uplands and Castle areas of Swansea will continue to be licensed with the Council.

Get Smart About Saving On Health Insurance  -  Mar 18, 2008
North American Press Syndicate,...(NAPSI)-Terms like PPO, HMO and HSA are the ABCs of health insurance-and understanding them could save you money. Still, a recent survey found that people

Anthem National Accounts Introduces New Products for Large ...  -  Mar 5, 2008
Earthtimes,Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation ("Compcare") underwrites or administers the HMO policies; and Compcare and BCBSWi collectively underwrite

Individual rights overriding theme on Opinion page  -  Mar 17, 2008
Victorville Daily Press,The classified staff has had an HMO for many years and adjusted to it. The students should not suffer just to maintain a PPO for teachers and administrators

Cleaveland: Federal workers like their insurance  -  Mar 12, 2008
Chattanooga Times Free Press,The HMO option is the choice of 24 per cent of Federal employees. Language and coverage of these plans may vary from state to state, but all must include

County tight-lipped on sale of Suffolk Health Plan  -  Mar 1, 2008
Newsday,BY RICK BRAND | rick.brand@newsday.com 7:43 PM EST, March 1, 2008 County Executive Steve Levy is trying to unload Suffolk Health Plan, the county-run HMO

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