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Sylvia Smith's column "The Bayhs, stock buys and biases" regarding Sen. Evan Bayh and his wife's "investment" in WellPoint health insurance and three pharmaceutical companies not only worries the Indianapolis Star but it should us all who want comprehensive health care reform.

TelaDoc Medical Services, which provides contracted physician telephone consultation services, has named Jason Gorevic as CEO.

WellPoint is one of few health care management companies that publicly shares its standards on how it establishes its formulary, according to the article, entitled, "Health Technology Assessment in Health-Care Decisions in the United States." The standards are accessible by going to ...

The WellPoint offices in Las Vegas, NV witnessed some protesters over the weekend who oppose the health insurance corporation's position that "tax breaks" are the best way to "reform" health insurance practices.

Wellpoint Health Networks Inc. is looking like a buy to Barron's, Morningstar and some technical analysts despite the stock's sharp runup since early March.

Wendell Potter, who worked in public relations for Cigna and Humana Inc., for more than 20 years before retiring in 2008, is scheduled to testify this afternoon before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

National Business Group on Health honors company's Choose Better Health associate wellness program INDIANAPOLIS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc.

AFTER LAST YEAR'S off-key performance left investors feeling disappointed, managed-care giant WellPoint is finally striking the right note.

WellPoint Inc. has signed a deal with cross-town company Arcadia Resources Inc., promising to use Arcadia's DailyMed service for the Medicaid patients that WellPoint handles in five states.

An investigation by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations showed that health insurers WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group and Assurant Inc.

He owns the stock for his Action Alerts PLUS charitable trust and has "no desire" to sell it.

We have posted before about how certain health care insurance companies/ managed care organizations in California were found to have cancelled individual health insurance policies after the people holding them made substantial claims, supposedly rationalized by minor errors or omissions in the information the people supplied to the companies on ...

Federal lawmakers chastised Indianapolis-based WellPoint and other insurance companies Tuesday for what they called the "vicious" and "inexcusable" practice of retroactively canceling coverage after customers start submitting claims.

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the bank has the least to worry about and can gain from new federal regulation.

Featuring DUK's alliance with French nuclear firm; the FDA's lift on ASTM's stem-cell trials; WLP's multi-million dollar deal with Dell; AZO's $500 million stock repurchase; and CAG's Q4 results Beacon Equity Research announces the release of stock alerts covering market movers: Duke Energy Corp.

There are more reports and rumors of layoffs in the finance industry this Friday.

This is what happens when you don't allow real competition into the picture. It's also what happens when you have a for-profit healthcare system: Executives of three of the nation's largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders , despite ...

Health benefits giant WellPoint Inc ., which has operations in Connecticut, said it signed a five-year, multi-million-dollar outsourcing pact with Texas PC-maker Dell Inc .

Executives of three of the nation's largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders, despite withering criticism from Republican and Democratic members of Congress who decried the practice as unfair and abusive.

Spun off by Merck in August 2003, Medco Health Solutions has become the largest U.S. pharmacy benefit manager , and now it may well make a large acquisition to make sure it stays ahead of the pack in the fiercely competitive but highly profitable industry.