Summertime grilling. Lawmakers question WellPoint execs on bonuses.
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Biomedical subjects
Laura B Benko
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Workforce Report 2004. Ratio fight goes national. As Calif. adjusts, backers seek to replicate success.
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California↗
CEO IT Achievement Award. IT at your service. Schaeffer sees unified data system as a key solution.
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Slipping through the cracks. Outsourcing staff doesn't mean hospitals are off the hook on background checks.
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Rhode Island's got the Blues. But the state's Blues plan isn't the only one drawing fire over its reserves, executive perks and compensation.
It's been a strained few months at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. Outrage over corporate excess led to a flurry of reforms at the insurer, headed by Chairman Frank Montanaro, left, including banning loans to employees and dropping lavish perks. Other Blues have been catching flak for their burgeoning bottom lines, but executives say they need ample reserves since that's their only capital.
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Force to be reckoned with UnitedHealth-Oxford could dominate northeast.
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Long-range forecast: partly healthy, chance of storms. Health plans use sophisticated modeling to help predict members' health risks, cost of care. But privacy issues cloud technology's future.
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Eyeing transparency. To hospitals' dismay, Calif. bill seeks more disclosure.
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Everybody's doing it. Pending Anthem deal opens door for more mergers.
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Stripping away mandates. States allow lower-cost policies with fewer benefits.
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Consumer Behavior↗
Targeting the swindlers. Congress grapples with how to stop proliferating health-insurance scams.
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It takes a county. Tax increase proposed to save public system in Calif.
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Chief executive philosopher. Calif. Blue Shield's CEO sees few conflicts in caring for the community and caring for the bottom line.
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Big, but not so easy. As its large patient base sought more choice in access to care, New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic decided it was time to sell its HMO.
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Chronology as Topic↗
Saving small businesses. Reports suggest AHPs may harm rather than help.
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Too much money. Pa. regulators require Blues to submit surplus info.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
Play fair. Ark. AG accuses Blues of monopolizing local market.
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Arkansas↗
Blues boom. Anthem, WellPoint deal proceeds despite challenges.
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