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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Aetna rose $.03 or .1 percent, to $29.81. CIGNA rose $.13 or .4 percent, to $31.09. Coventry Healthcare rose $.01 or percent, to $22.69. Humana rose $.15 or .4 percent, to $41.66. UnitedHealth fell $.06 or .2 percent, to $29.07. WellPoint fell $.05 or .1 percent, to $52.31.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies were up at the close of trading: Aetna rose $.66 or 2.3 percent, to $29.82. CIGNA rose $.08 or .3 percent, to $30.96. Coventry Healthcare rose $.69 or 3.1 percent, to $22.68. Humana rose $1.06 or 2.6 percent, to $41.51. UnitedHealth rose $.46 or 1.6 percent, to $29.13. WellPoint rose $1.36 or 2.7 percent, to $52.36.
Health Net's third-quarter EPS of 67 cents was above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 61 cents.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Joe Manchin wants to hold off on a plan to expand Medicaid coverage for adults in West Virginia.Earlier this year, Manchin instructed the state health department to prepare a policy that would allow adults earning up to 50 percent...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Gov. Joe Manchin wants to hold off on a plan to expand Medicaid coverage for adults in West Virginia. Earlier this year, Manchin instructed the state health department to prepare a policy that would allow adults earning up to...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies are mixed at noon: Aetna rose $.15 or .5 percent, to $29.31. CIGNA fell $.25 or .8 percent, to $30.63. Coventry Healthcare rose $.43 or 2.0 percent, to $22.42. Humana rose $.61 or 1.5 percent, to $41.06. UnitedHealth rose $.04 or .1 percent, to $28.71. WellPoint rose $.84 or 1.6 percent, to $51.84.
ELIZABETHTOWN - Essex County will hire a law firm to represent it in preparing a new countywide plan to detect and avoid fraud and inaccurate billing in the Medicaid program.
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating a security breach at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, claiming the insurance company waited two months to inform nearly 19,000 doctors and other health care providers in Connecticut that a laptop containing their personal information had been stolen.
A lawsuit launched against Amgen Inc. on Oct. 30 raises important questions about what is accepted practice when it comes to manufacturing and administering certain drugs and whether the company encouraged the fraudulent sale of free drugs to increase their use. The fifteen state attorneys general behind the suit allege that Amgen exceeded the amount of “overfill” necessary in its vials of ...
It may not be much comfort to Dr. Richard Fisher.But he is not alone.Fisher, a Brookfield dentist, found out last month that Blue Cross/Blue Shield may have leaked his Social Security number and other personal identification in a security breach that may be affecting as many as 850,000 doctors, dentists, therapists and other health providers.
More than half of Shelby County's federally funded nursing homes earned failing marks in a recent federal ranking -- below-average scores that at least one local expert credits to a shortage of area nurses. According to data pooled by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state inspectors found widespread patterns of medication errors, improperly marked drugs, unnecessary use of ...
The owner of Advance Home Health in Brooklyn Park and two of the company's personal-care assistants have been charged with stealing more than $89,000 from Medicaid.
New data from a long-term survey suggests that U.S. teens are no less active today than they were in 1991. Yet they've gotten increasingly heavier over the same period
This is a release from Blue Cross Blue Shield in response to our request for reaction to the Healthcare bill passed in the House over the weekend. read more
Dr. Michael Reinstein: Psychiatrist is heavy prescriber of antipsychotic drugs No psychiatrist in Illinois -- or Texas, Florida and California, for that matter -- has come close to Dr. Michael Reinstein in prescribing the antipsychotic drug clozapine to public aid patients, Medicaid records show.
TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- While there are plenty of good reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) later.
