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Yesterday | Journal Gazette

Letter (web version): Ask Bayh to support public option for health insurance

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.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Insurance

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Health Data Management

New Head of Phone Consultation Firm

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

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Related Topix: Insurance

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Rehab Management

WellPoint's Contribution To Drug Formulary Evaluation Standards Highlighted in ISPOR Publication

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 ...

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Related Topix: Insurance

Desert Beacon

Some Choice: Health Insurance Corporations' Prescription For Their Health

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Las Vegas, NV, Healthcare Law, Law

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Wellpoint, Health Insurers Look Bullish; What Will Congress Do?

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Health Insurance, Health, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Washington Post, Publishing, Financial Markets

Sun Jun 28, 2009

ABC News

Deceptive Practices: How Insurance Companies Hurt Employees

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.

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Related Topix: Humana, Insurance, Georgetown University

Fri Jun 26, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

WellPoint Captures Gold for Its Associate Wellness Program

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

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Related Topix: Insurance, Computers, IT Services, Non-Profit, Life, Food, Nutrition

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Barron's

WellPoint Manages to Impress

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

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Related Topix: Insurance, Personal Finance, Retirement, Social Security

Wed Jun 24, 2009

IBJ.COM

WellPoint, Arcadia make DailyMed pact

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Medicaid, Health, York, SC

Tue Jun 23, 2009

ParaPundit

Hearings On Health Insurance Policy Cancelations

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

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Related Topix: Insurance, Lymphoma, Health, Breast Cancer

Mon Jun 22, 2009

TheStreet.com

Cramer's 'Stop Trading!': Goldman's Good

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

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Mad Money, Entertainment, Television, Insurance, TheStreetcom, Media, Computers, Business News

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Health Care Renewal

Managed Care Executives Will Not Limit Rescissions

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 ...

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Insurance, UnitedHealth Group

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Indianapolis Star

WellPoint rebuked for canceling policies

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Bart Stupak, Democrat, John Dingell

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Cramer on BloggingStocks: No worries at JPMorgan

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

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Insurance, Humana, UnitedHealth Group

OfficialWire

Stock Alerts On Wall Street Movers: DUK, ASTM, WLP, AZO, CAG, MDT

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.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Duke Energy, Energy, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Aastrom Biosciences, AutoZone, Retail, Auto Parts, Insurance

Tech Confidential Blog

Finance Layoffs: Capital One, Barclays and more

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

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Related Topix: Capital One Financial, Financial Services, Banking, Barclays plc, Insurance, Framingham, MA, Computers, Dell

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Crooks and Liars

Insurers Tell Congress: Hell Yes! If You're Sick, We're Pulling Your Insurance Coverage

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 ...

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Michael Burgess, Insurance, UnitedHealth Group

Hartford Business

WellPoint outsources IT support to Dell

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 .

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Insurance, Computers, Dell, PC

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Health insurers refuse to limit rescission of coverage

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Michael Burgess, Insurance, UnitedHealth Group, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Lymphoma

Tue Jun 16, 2009

BusinessWeek

Marcial: Could Medco Make an Acquisition Soon?

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.

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Related Topix: Medco Health Solution, Insurance, Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Express Scripts, Aetna, UnitedHealth Group

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