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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies are up at 10 a.m.: Aetna rose $.67 or 2.3 percent, to $29.32. CIGNA rose $.59 or 1.8 percent, to $32.82. Coventry Healthcare rose $.57 or 2.6 percent, to $22.79. Humana rose $.57 or 1.4 percent, to $41.10. UnitedHealth rose $.31 or 1.1 percent, to $27.64. WellPoint rose $.92 or 1.7 percent, to $54.58.
The California HMO had called the billing error for treatment of Medicare and Medi-Cal patients a record keeping issue. California HMO Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $3.75 million to resolve allegations that several of its California units submitted false bills to the federal government for treatment of Medicare and Medi-Cal patients, officials announced Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies were down at the close of trading: Aetna fell $1.11 or 3.7 percent, to $28.65. CIGNA fell $1.14 or 3.4 percent, to $32.23. Coventry Healthcare fell $.50 or 2.2 percent, to $22.22. Humana fell $2.01 or 4.7 percent, to $40.53. UnitedHealth fell $.96 or 3.4 percent, to $27.33. WellPoint fell $.95 or 1.7 percent, to $53.66.
More people are enrolled in Oklahoma's Medicaid program than ever before, but the health care services they receive will likely be cut as officials roll back costs due to a deepening statewide budget shortfall, the program's chief executive said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies are down at noon: Aetna fell $.55 or 1.8 percent, to $29.21. CIGNA fell $.55 or 1.6 percent, to $32.82. Coventry Healthcare fell $.09 or .4 percent, to $22.63. Humana fell $1.17 or 2.8 percent, to $41.37. UnitedHealth fell $.70 or 2.5 percent, to $27.59. WellPoint fell $.59 or 1.1 percent, to $54.02.
The agreement will see the Louisville-based Humana open a health clinic for its employees and dependents in downtown Louisville in 2010.
MONTPELIER – A Williamstown man was sentenced Thursday on six counts of petty larceny related to Medicaid fraud. ... - Times Argus Staff Times Argus Staff
Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! As the state looks for ways to streamline Medicaid costs, it will hold several public meetings around the state to gather input on new concepts for the program.
Those concerned with fiscal responsibility should be worried about what will happen if proposed health care legislation doesn’t pass.
Pharmaceutical executives are laying out plans to prevent the misuse of prescription painkillers, under pressure from regulators trying to prevent hundreds of fatal overdoses each year.
Hayli Murphy hears her mother's cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch to get it. Watching her run around, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, the 9-year-old was heavily sedated in a pediatric intensive care unit, a ventilator doing the job her lungs -- ravaged by H1N1 flu -- could no longer do.
Gov.-elect Chris Christie has named four of his top advisers, including three with legal backgrounds.
Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it is challenging Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.'s patent on the insomnia treatment Rozerem.
Police in central Pennsylvania say a prankster who scaled a 400-foot radio tower to hang a bedsheet from an antenna needs to see a doctor right away.
FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are vaccinated against chicken pox may also have increased protection against shingles, new findings suggest.
