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Tuberculosis Cases in Manhattan Up in 2007  -  25 Mar 2008
New York Sun,MEDICAID MANAGED CARE INITIATIVE IS SUCCEEDING New York's Medicaid managed care initiative has failed to achieve some of its underlying goals,

John Ramey Named Executive Director for Local Health Plans of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Web (press release),...(Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 24, 2008 -- Local Health Plans of California (LHPC), a not-for-profit managed care association that advocates on behalf of

Health Care Services M&A Posts Second-Highest Dollar Level in 2007 ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),The sluggish development of health savings accounts in the managed care sector, for example, suggests that people may have a limited tolerance for treating

Life Denied: Nurses, Family of Sick Teen March on Health Insurance ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),The treatments were deemed medically necessary by Nick's doctors, but California's Managed Care oversight board recently sided with PacifiCare,

OC Teen Denied 'Life-Saving' Treatment  -  25 Mar 2008
ktla 5,The treatments were deemed medically necessary by the teen's doctors, but California's Managed Care oversight board recently sided with PacificCare,

Hospitals snatch up Dallas-area land to pave the way for medical ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Dallas Morning News,And "doctors are trying to go with the 800-pound gorilla [the largest hospitals] because they think they'll have the best managed-care contracts," he said.

URAC Announces New Leadership To Mine Health Care Management Data ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),Her extensive experience includes work with hospital and health systems, managed care oversight and delivery organizations, community behavioral health

Dental insurance plans vary significantly  -  25 Mar 2008
Munster Times,The most common general types of dental insurance are: traditional (or "indemnity") plans and managed care plans. Many employers have even decided to

INSPIRIS Partners with Elderplan to Bring CarePlus to New York Members  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),...prescription drug benefits," said Dudley Gerow, president of managed care for Elderplan, a participating agency of Metropolitan Jewish Health System.

With the End of Steerage, Toledo, Ohio Consumers Given Choice of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),HealthLeaders-InterStudy is the authoritative source for managed care data, analysis, and news. For more information, please visit http://www.

BUYINS.NET: ALJ, GCS, KBW, MOH, TOC, BZP Have Been Added To Naked ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Molina Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: MOH | news | PowerRating | PR Charts ) through its subsidiaries, operates as a multi-state managed care organization that

INSPIRIS Partners with Elderplan to Bring CarePlus to New York Members  -  25 Mar 2008
SunHerald.com,...prescription drug benefits," said Dudley Gerow, president of managed care for Elderplan, a participating agency of Metropolitan Jewish Health System.

Jopari Ramps Up Texas eBill Production With National and Regional ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),...automation and workers' compensation eBill processor, reports significant progress in integrating national and regional carriers, managed care networks,

Medical schools eye expansions for first time in decades  -  25 Mar 2008
Orangeburg Times Democrat,Since the boom years, when enrollment doubled, policymakers have reined in the growth of medical programs, fearing that the rise of managed care could lead

Medicare in Montana: Payment scheme hurts private practices  -  25 Mar 2008
The Missoulian,The remainder was split among hospitals ($204 billion), prescription drugs ($49 billion), managed care and other services. Because Medicare allows so much

United American Healthcare Corporation Subsidiary Submits Response ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)...has submitted a joint proposal with Molina Healthcare, Inc. ("Molina") to apply for managed care services contracts with the State of Tennessee,

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Announces New Chief Program ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),...private practice, integrated network development, clinical service integration, strategic planning, information systems, managed care contracting,

Unused Hospital Supplies Get Second Chance Overseas  -  25 Mar 2008
New York Times,Danielle Butin, a recently downsized managed care executive, started to think in October that she could maybe blast through some of that impenetrable

Medicare, Medicaid Managed Care Gets Scrutiny for Fraud  -  Mar 18, 2008
Wall Street JournalNow, regulators are belatedly ramping up scrutiny of the managed-care industry, which has grown to cover more than 37 million state and federal

Fraudsters Exploit Managed Care in Medicare and Medicaid  -  Mar 19, 2008
Wall Street Journal...“The reality is, we’ve been doing [medical] provider fraud for a hundred years; we’ve been doing managed-care fraud for 10 years.

Industry Analysts See Medicare Advantage Continuing to Grow in the ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Atlantic Information Services, Inc.,Reprinted from MEDICARE ADVANTAGE NEWS, biweekly news and analysis on the Medicare (and Medicaid) managed care programs. Medicare will continue to be the

Managed Care's Rough Week Shows Common And Distinct Risks  -  Mar 13, 2008
CNNMoney.comMeanwhile, however, other major managed-care companies sought to reassure investors that they are on track to meet their 2008 forecasts for earnings and

Eddy Broadway Named CEO of ValueOptions ® New Mexico  -  Mar 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),ValueOptions ® is a national managed care company that specializes in management for all behavioral health issues, and mental health and chemical dependency

Humana agrees to buy managed-care company  -  Mar 21, 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal,Humana has signed a deal to buy OSF Health Plans, an Illinois managed-care company, for $90.5 million. The purchase of Peoria-based OSF is expected to

Event Brief of Walgreens Conference Call/Webcast on Creation of ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),However, we have found that what corporations, both large employers as well as managed care organizations want truly is transparency.

Humana to buy Peoria-based managed care company  -  Mar 20, 2008
Business Insurance,Humana Inc. has agreed to acquire OSF HealthPlans, a Peoria, Ill.-based managed care company, for $90.5 million in cash. Humana said the transaction would

Health Care Marketplace | Increase in Medicare, Medicaid Managed ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
Kaiser network.org,States and the federal government began shifting Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries to managed care plans in the 1990s to control program costs,

MedAssets ready to go to mat for customers  -  Mar 22, 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution,But because of the way they are structured, they have to deal with very complex and sometimes very powerful organizations — managed care, for example.

Acquisition Opportunities in Medicare Managed Care and More at ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
Earthtimes,He will address several aspects of transactions in Medicare managed care from both the buy-side and the sell-side. Not only will the conference feature

Walgreens Awarded Exclusive Contract as Specialty Pharmacy ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
WELT ONLINE,...its managed care division, and Take Care Health Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary that manages 146 convenient care clinics at Walgreens drugstores.

Aon Unit Valley Oak Systems Appoints Vice President of Managed Care  -  Feb 28, 2008
FOXBusinessPayne's managed care expertise will enable a strategic expansion of iVOS Review Software and Service, Valley Oak's market-leading medical bill review

Mis-Managed Care: Is 'Cookbook Medicine' Crippling the US Health ...  -  Feb 25, 2008
AlterNet,For Senoff, profit motive aside, the very nature of managed care is like putting the "fox in charge of the hen house." "I'm not a person who's against

Mass. Health Gurus Call for Revivial of Managed Care  -  Feb 27, 2008
Wall Street JournalIn an op-ed in this morning’s Globe, two of the state’s health gurus say the answer lies in managed care, a phrase they say was sullied by the insurance

MCOL's HealthQuest Publishers Release 2008 National Managed Care ...  -  Mar 16, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),MCOL, the premiere business-to-business publisher of health management and managed care resources, today released their 2008 edition of "The National

MedCath inks managed-care agreements  -  Feb 25, 2008
Bizjournals.com,Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. The hospital is owned by Charlotte-based MedCath Corp. and physician partners. The new contracts provide in-network

Ironshore Launches IronHealth  -  Mar 24, 2008
Hartford Courant,IronHealth will initially offer hospital and long term care professional liability coverages, and managed care errors and omissions liability insurance.

Coventry Health Care to Speak at the Lehman Brothers Global ...  -  Mar 11, 2008
WELT ONLINE,Individual Consumer & Government Business, and Specialty Business divisions, Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products

Pfizer at Cowen and Company Health Care Conference - Final  -  Mar 24, 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),Most importantly we think is the changes on information and who owns the information -- managed care companies and large insurers doing their own analysis

IronHealth to write health care liability risks  -  Mar 24, 2008
Business Insurance,IronHealth, which will be based in Simsbury, Conn., initially will focus on hospital professional liability, managed care errors and omissions liability and

Issues MO HealthNet Managed Care users may face  -  Mar 8, 2008
News-Leader.com,You can change MO HealthNet managed-care plans for any reason during the first 90 days after you became a plan member. Call the MO HealthNet Managed Care

Coventry Health Plans Comment On '08 View Early Next Week  -  Mar 14, 2008
CNNMoney.comThe company's update could shed more light on the state of the industry following a rocky week for managed-care stocks. WellPoint Inc. (WLP) and Humana Inc.

Aetna Tops FORTUNE's List Of America's Most Admired Companies ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
WELT ONLINE,Aetna, which finished second in the Health Care: Insurance and Managed Care category in 2006 and 2007, finished ahead of WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group,

Darwin Offers Liability Insurance for Managed Care Firms  -  Mar 10, 2008
Insurance Journal,Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. has introduced a multi-coverage corporate liability insurance product for managed care organizations.

Citi Updates Valuation On Managed Care Following Sell-Off  -  Mar 12, 2008
StreetInsider.com (subscription),Citi analyst says "AETNA (NYSE: AET) can make lemonade; attractive ahead of investor day Friday - AET stands out for reiterating its guidance,

Humana Announces Intent to Acquire OSF HealthPlans and Provides ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
WELT ONLINE,Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase OSF HealthPlans, a Peoria, Illinois-based managed care company,

Darwin Launches New Multi-coverage Corporate Liability Insurance ...  -  Mar 9, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Darwin's managed care corporate liability coverage simplifies insurance purchasing process for managed care organizations and service providers.

Medicaid mailing out managed care plans  -  Mar 5, 2008
Charleston Post Courier,As part of the state's Medicaid reform plan, the program called Healthy Connections Choices is designed to help Medicaid members enroll in managed care

Eddy Broadway Named CEO of ValueOptions(R) New Mexico (2º)  -  Mar 24, 2008
InfoBolsa,ValueOptions(R) is a national managed care company that specializes in management for all behavioral health issues, and mental health and chemical

Critics: New plan delays care  -  Mar 8, 2008
News-Leader.com,In January, some 36000 people in 17 counties with MO HealthNet, formerly Medicaid, were required to adopt Missouri HealthNet Managed Care.

Deadline nears for Medicare Advantage plans  -  Mar 17, 2008
Akron Beacon Journal,Time is running out for seniors and some younger disabled to sign up for optional Medicare managed-care plans. Anyone who's covered by Medicare has until

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