UnitedHealthcare Message to Health Net Members
UnitedHealthcare has acquired Health Net of the Northeast’s licensed subsidiaries and obtained the rights to renew Health Net’s membership in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. This means that when your employer renews your group’s coverage, they may choose UnitedHealthcare. UnitedHealthcare will provide you broader choice and access to quality care with one of the [...]
Read MoreUnitedHealthcare Completes Acquisition of Health Net?s Northeast Licenses and Rights to Renew
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group company, and Health Net, Inc. today announced that UnitedHealthcare has completed the previously announced acquisition of Health Net of the Northeast’s licensed subsidiaries and has obtained rights to renew Health Net’s membership in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The transaction has received all regulatory approvals required for completion “UnitedHealthcare has [...]
Read MoreGalichia signs deals with two insurers
Galichia Heart Hospital has signed agreements with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas and with Coventry Health Care of Kansas, making the hospital an in-network provider for both insurance companies. Galichia CEO Stephen Harris said Tuesday that the hospital had been negotiating with both companies for several months. Galichia signed a contract with Preferred [...]
Read MoreIt’s time now to focus on Arizona’s health-care system
Since last spring, the noisy and sometime rancorous health-care-reform debate has kept all eyes and ears on Washington. It now appears the probability is high that a health-care-reform bill will be signed by President Obama. Given what our state is contemplating with respect to the next round of budget cuts, I think some sharp focus [...]
Read MoreKentucky Audit Blasts Spending at County Insurance Provider
The association that sells and manages insurance programs for Kentucky’s 120 counties operates with a “self-serving culture” that has resulted in millions of dollars in questionable spending the past three years, according to a critical report by the state auditor. State Auditor Crit Luallen today released a special examination of the Kentucky Association of Counties [...]
Read MoreMaryland insurance commissioner Ralph Tyler leaving to fill FDA post
Maryland’s insurance commissioner of just over two years has announced his resignation to take a position with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. Ralph S. Tyler, the state’s top insurance regulator since September 2007, said today (Dec. 16) that he will accept an appointment as chief counsel to the FDA. Tyler’s resignation is [...]
Read MoreState approves Health Net sale to UnitedHealth
The decision was condemned on Friday by the Connecticut State Medical Society, which expressed concern that the takeover harms competition and leaves health care consumers little protection. In July, UnitedHealth and Health Net announced the deal, worth more than $500 million. United has confirmed that the deal does not include the nearly 1,000 workers Health [...]
Read MoreHealth Net Names New President of Northeast Plans, General Counsel
Health Net Inc. has reshuffled responsibilities of two executives in light of UnitedHealthcare’s recent acquisition of the company’s Northeast U. S. licenses. Health Net said it named Linda Tiano as president of regional health plans for Health Net of the Northeast. She has served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary since January 2007. [...]
Read MoreDemocratic Governors Voice Concern Over Health Care Bill
Republican governors are not alone in being concerned about what the proposed health care legislation might mean for their already overstrained budgets: Democrats share the same worries. “We’ve got concerns,” Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said in an interview Wednesday, hours before getting elected as the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “And we’re [...]
Read MoreHealth strategy could save W. Va. $1B
West Virginia’s health care system could save over $1. 1 billion by going digital and centralizing patient care, according to a first-of-its-kind report presented to lawmakers Monday. Those savings would be seen not just by government agencies, but by private insurers and policyholders, who could benefit directly in the form of lower premiums. The report [...]
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