Insurance
New Rand study on excess health costs
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009In 1960, U.S. business spent 1.2% of their payroll on health insurance. In 2006, they spent 9.9%. The Rand Corporation recently released a study that examined 37 industries from 1987 to 2005 and concluded that excess health care costs are causing significant job losses as well as revenue output losses for many American industries…
Lawsuit against Ingenix and United Healthcare
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Today, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc. (HLB) filed a national class action complaint on behalf on non-contracted ASCs across the country, challenging United Healthcare Group’s and other health plans’ misuse of the Ingenix database to knowingly under-reimburse ASCs by millions of dollars over many years.
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Blues Facing Lawsuit over Reduced Payment to N.J. ASCs
Monday, July 27th, 2009Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is facing a complaint filed against it over practices concerning reimbursements to ambulatory surgery centers in that state. According to Modern Healthcare, The Alliance for Quality Care has filed a complaint with the New Jersey banking and insurance commissioner’s office arguing that the…
Underpayments to Consumers by the Health Insurance Industry
Monday, June 29th, 2009Since Chairman Rockefeller held two hearings in March 2009 on payment practices in
the insurance industry, Senate Commerce Committee staff have been conducting a nation-wide
investigation into how the insurance industry pays benefits to consumers who purchase “out-of-
network” health insurance coverage. In the course of this investigation, Committee staff have
determined that in every…
Ga. Surgery Centers File Lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield
Monday, June 15th, 2009ATLANTA — A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Georgia surgery centers against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGa) claims the state’s…
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UnitedHealth shares ideas for saving $540 billion
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009The Minnesota-based insurer’s proposals come as the health care industry aims to pare $2 trillion in costs over 10 years…
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Summary of Findings Employer Health Benefits
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009As the leading source of health insurance, employer-sponsored insurance covers About 158 million non elderly people in America .1 to provide current information About the nature of employer-sponsored health benefits, the Kaiser family foundation (Kaiser) And the health research And educational trust (hret) conduct An Annual national survey of private And public employers of three…
Insurance Headlines 2009
Monday, May 11th, 2009Single-Payer Health-Care Advocates Disrupt Senate Hearing Wall (Street Journal, May 6, 2009) Eight advocates of government-run health care disrupted a Senate hearing Tuesday on health-care coverage, complaining that their viewpoint was shut out of Senate debate on the issue.
Health Insurers Agree to End Higher Premiums for Women (New York Times, May 6, 2009)…