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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies were mixed at the close of trading: Aetna rose $.58 or 1.9 percent, to $30.47. CIGNA rose $.61 or 1.8 percent, to $33.85. Coventry Healthcare fell $.07 or .3 percent, to $22.63. Humana fell $.10 or .2 percent, to $40.51. UnitedHealth rose $.16 or .6 percent, to $28.46. WellPoint rose $.97 or 1.8 percent, to $55.76.
Gov. Bobby Jindal asked the state's congressional delegation for months to help Louisiana shrink a massive and looming Medicaid deficit. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu picked a measure that the Republican Jindal fervently opposes to attach the partial Medicaid fix, linking it to the Democrats' health overhaul bill.
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LOS ANGELES----AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest global AIDS organization, today lauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid , for its decision earlier today to cover HIV testing for Medicare beneficiaries who may be at increased risk for HIV exposure as well as women who are pregnant, and beneficiaries of any age that request to be tested.
They may still call it a "public plan," but private insurers — not the government — would offer coverage under a compromise Democrats are considering to win Senate passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Urgently seeking a deal on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Democratic senators are considering temporarily opening the Medicare rolls to uninsured middle-aged people able to purchase the coverage.
Some 210,000 Michigan seniors with Medigap coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will see another monthly rate hike Feb. 1.
Liberal and moderate Democrats have reached "broad agreement" on the public option portion of the Senate health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday, but at least one liberal senator who took part in the negotiations wasn't so sure.
Gov. Martin O'Malley's 2010 General Assembly agenda is beginning to take shape, as the economy becomes a major factor in his legislative program. The Medicaid False Claims Act.
The decision by Independence Blue Cross and Aetna to withdraw Medicare Advantage plans in January could leave 40,000 seniors in southeastern Pennsylvania without a primary physician or forced to pay full price for their medications.
Aetna rose $.47 or 1.6 percent, to $30.36. CIGNA rose $.78 or 2.3 percent, to $34.02.
Senate negotiators struck a tentative agreement Tuesday night to replace the controversial government-run insurance plan in their version of health-care legislation, hoping to remove one of the last major roadblocks preventing the bill from moving to a final vote in the chamber.
Congressional negotiators sealed agreement Tuesday night on sweeping spending legislation that boosts housing and heating subsidies but curbs President Barack Obama's requests for aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
PIERRE -- The $76 million conversion of South Dakota's computer system for Medicaid is on schedule and should be ready to roll out for use by health care providers and recipients next year, state Social Services Secretary Deb Bowman said Monday....
Pharmaceutical companies defended themselves on Tuesday against complaints about rising medicine prices that could reestablish the drug industry as a political target in the U.S. health reform debate.
Ex-FBI director William Webster will head an independent review of the bureau's handling of information gathered before the Fort Hood massacre.
