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Thursday May 24 | The News-Gazette

Emergency HMO contracts lined up

The state has lined up 90-day emergency contracts with two HMO health plan providers to make sure state employees and retirees are covered for a new plan year kicking in July 1. The emergency contracts were arranged with Coventry Health Care and Health Alliance Medical Plans, both of which have submitted proposals to provide coverage for 2013 and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Children's Specialized Hospital, Healthcare Industry, Illinois

Sun May 20, 2012

American Medical Association

Blues settlement in class-action suit shifts focus to last HMO holdouts

Closing what the nation's physicians hope is one of the final chapters in their nearly decade-long stand against the managed care industry, the Blues are the latest health plans to settle doctors' claims of improper payment practices.

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Thu May 17, 2012

Freshnews

Sequenom Provides Update on Agreement With Coventry Health Care

SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequenom Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, LLC, entered into the recently announced provider network participation agreement with Coventry Health Care National Network, Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Sequenom, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Genetics, Corporate / Securities Law, Law

Reuters

UPDATE 1-Coventry ends deal to cover Sequenom's Down Syndrome test

Genetic analysis products maker Sequenom Inc said insurer Coventry Health Care Inc terminated an agreement to provide coverage for its prenatal test to detect certain chromosomal abnormalities including Down Syndrome.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Sequenom, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

CBS News

Midday Glance: Managed Care companies

NEW YORK &#8212 Shares of some top managed care companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Aetna fell $.28 or .7 percent, to $39.93. Cigna Corp.

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Related Topix: Cigna, Insurance

Capital Soup

Seniors, Shareholders to Demand End to Secret Spending at Annual Meeting of Coventry Health

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - Seniors, advocates, health plan members and shareholders of Coventry Health Care will gather inside and outside of the company's annual meeting Thursday to demand that the company stop using policyholder premiums and taxpayer money to secretly fund political actions that hurt American families.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Adam Putnam, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Tue May 15, 2012

Business Journal

Coventry Cares to resume coverage of addiction drug

After cutting off access to a prescription drug used to treat addiction, Kentucky Medicaid contractor CoventryCares of Kentucky has resumed coverage for the drug.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Harrodsburg, KY

Wed May 09, 2012

Reuters

UPDATE 1-Sequenom says Coventry to cover its Down Syndrome test

Sequenom Inc said insurer Coventry Health Care Inc will provide coverage for its prenatal test to detect certain chromosomal abnormalities including Down Syndrome.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Sequenom, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Tue May 08, 2012

Insurance News Net

Fewer U.S. Adults Get The Health Care They Need

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Related Topix: Henry Schein, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Health Insurance, Health

CBS News

Midday Glance: Managed Care companies

NEW YORK &#8212 Shares of some top managed care companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Aetna fell $.31 or .7 percent, to $42.67. Cigna Corp.

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Related Topix: Cigna, Insurance

Fri May 04, 2012

CBS News

Midday Glance: Managed Care companies

NEW YORK &#8212 Shares of some top managed care companies are down at 1 p.m.: Aetna fell $.88 or 2.0 percent, to $43.13. Cigna Corp.

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Related Topix: Cigna, Insurance

Thu May 03, 2012

MSN Money

Cigna profit misses Wall Street target

Insurer Cigna Corp posted a lower-than-expected first-quarter profit on Thursday, as earnings slipped in its segment offering disability and life coverage policies.

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Related Topix: Cigna, Insurance, Aetna

Tue May 01, 2012

Seeking Alpha

S&P 500 Dividend Payers Rise To Dozen Year High

There is good news for income investors. With Nasdaq's initialization of its first dividend on April 25th, the number of dividend payers in the S&P 500 is now at 402, a dozen year high.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, American Tower, IT Services

Mon Apr 30, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Coventry Health Care, Inc. Earnings Call Nuggets: Medicaid MLR, Kansas Medicaid Award

On Friday, Coventry Health Care, Inc. reported its first quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicaid

AmericanBankingNews.com

Coventry Health Care Given New $38.00 Price Target at Bank of America

The analysts wrote, "CVH reported a disappointing quarter where it cut core guidance by $0.58 driven by a blow up related to losses in its new Kentucky Medicaid business.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Children's Specialized Hospital, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Medicaid, Health

Reuters

UPDATE 1-Humana profit falls 21 pct, missing Street view

Humana Inc posted a 21 percent decline in quarterly profit on Monday, missing Wall Street's target, as higher medical benefit costs weighed on the health insurer's results.

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Related Topix: Humana, Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Aetna

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