Coventry Health Care News

Chevy Chase resident Anne Coventry, a rising senior at Georgetown Day School, is collecting cameras for Washington, D.C. photographer Rebecca Drobis as part of a project that will teach photography to children on the Blackfeet reservation near Glacier National Park in Montana.

June 25, 2009 Thursday 4:44 PM EST SECTION: NEWS & COMMENTARY; Economy and Politics LENGTH: 433 words HEADLINE: Health stocks climb as senators cut bill costs BYLINE: Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch mailto:rschroeder@marketwatch.com . Robert Schroeder is a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington.

Healthcare stocks moved into the lead as biggest gainers on the S&P 500 Thursday afternoon after media reports said Senate negotiators had cut the price-tag of a health-care reform bill, bringing it in line with a target of $1 trillion over 10 years.

Health-care stocks surged Thursday after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said U.S. senators reached an agreement to slash the price tag of a sweeping reform bill to below $1 trillion over 10 years.

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Try as they might, the major indices failed to end Thursdaya TMs trading session with an across-the-board victory.

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Two Florida farms have decided to participate in a deal to increase the wages of the state's tomato pickers in an agreement with a farmworker advocacy group and upscale Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain announced Thursday.

US Magellan Health Services said on 5 June 2009 it has signed a final agreement to buy First Health Services Corporation, a subsidiary of local Coventry Health Care , for USD110m in cash.

Today's trading session will be dominated by the street's reaction to this morning's jobs report.

Health insurer Coventry Health Care Inc. says it will sell its fee-based Medicaid service business to Magellan Health Services Inc.

Price target increased to $37 from $21. CB Richard Ellis upgraded at Goldman Sachs to Neutral from Sell based on valuation.

A health care executive with an Oakland-based organization was one of two people were killed in a plane crash in eastern Garfield County in Utah on Friday morning.

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A meeting will be held June 4 in Charleston to reconsider two changes that will affect the insurance policies of public employee retirees.

West Virginia's health care program for public employees has decided to end subsidies for retirees, starting next year with all new hires, and was promptly told to expect a lawsuit.

Thousands of retired state workers will return to the health care benefit levels they had two years ago if the state PEIA cannot find another provider for the Medicare Advantage plan by January.

Officials responsible for the health benefits of more than 35,000 West Virginia state retirees have some decisions to make.

Posted Tue May 12, 11:03 am ET Posted By: Chris Kallos Highlights include WellPoint, Inc.

West Virginia must find a new way to provide health care to some 35,000 retired public employees.