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Medicaid, senior products make up for carriers’ commercial losses
The nation’s eight largest health insurance companies collectively lost 836,000 members in the first six months of the year, as commercial enrollment sagged. Those commercial losses were offset by...
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Health execs tell Obama officials reform about more than just insurance
Increasingly cast as the villain in the nation’s rising cost for health care, five of the nation’s largest health care insurers met with the Obama Administration to argue that they are bit players in a...
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Health insurers denying fewer claims, but payment errors increasing
Four of the nation’s largest health insurers had “dramatic reductions” in their claims payment denial rates since last year, according to new American Medical Association research. The doctors’ group...
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Health insurer trio launches cost-saving defined contribution program
A Michigan-based firm says it experienced health cost savings after investing in a private exchange and defined-contribution plan designed by three Blue health insurers to simplify insurers’ health...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield earnings to lag behind public health insurers: Fitch
In contrast to publicly traded health insurers, full year 2015 earnings for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Companies (BCBS) are expected to decline, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings....
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