Business Week |
August 14th, 2008 |
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Managed-care providers UnitedHealth and Aetna, eyeing the specter of health-care reform, are diversifying into new markets and product lines[...]
The Street |
August 14th, 2008 |
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Aetna, Ceradyne and Kraft were upgraded; Teppco and Delta Petroleum were downgraded.[...]
Hank Stern's Cavalcade of Risk, a kinda sorta departure from the usual stuff I do with MCM. [One caveat - I tried to use the auto-poster app, and the weird spacing results resulted from that effort. After slogging thru it for many (well, a few at least) minutes, I gave [...]
Hospital across the country are deciding not to bill patients or insurers for the worst sorts of medical errors. Hospital groups in 23 states now have policies against billing for errors such as operating on the wrong body part or giving the patient the wrong blood type - that's up [...]
In a previous post, I spelled out why I am buying healthcare stocks for an Obama presidency. In that post, I promised to provide three stocks that would benefit from this fact. The first stock was Aetna (AET) and now I will discus the second stock in this series, Schering-Plough [...]
Another big insurer says it will stop paying hospitals for costs associated with serious medical errors. This time, it's Health Care Service Corp., which covers 12.4 million people under four Blue Cross plans including Illinois Blue Cross, the Chicago Tribune reports. Early this year Aetna and WellPoint joined the no-pay [...]
Aetna has announced that its second-quarter profits have gone up 6.4 percent for its second quarter, courtesy of both rising membership numbers and a raise in premiums. The company earned $480.5 million during its second quarter, compared with profit of $451.3 million during the same period the previous year. The profit [...]
Another health plan has announced that it will stop paying for complications arising from preventable errors by hospitals. This time, it's Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, which stands as the state's largest non-profit health plan with about 900,000 beneficiaries. As of October 1, the plan will stop [...]
I'd been meaning to get to the Center for Studying Health System Change's annual Wall Street comes to Washington meeting for several years - finally made it and it has been well worth the trip from Conn. There were two sessions, one devoted to health plans and the other to [...]
CNBC |
July 3rd, 2008 |
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Aetna shares dropped 5 percent and Health Net tumbled 10 percent after a Goldman Sachs analyst slapped "sell" ratings on the two health insurers' stocks Thursday. Read More Topics:Economy (U.S.) | Stock MarketSectors:Insurance | Health CareCompanies:Humana Inc | Cigna Corp | Unitedhealth Group Inc | Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. | [...]
CNBC |
July 3rd, 2008 |
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Shares of Aetna Inc. and Health Net Inc. were on pace to open at their lowest levels in years Thursday after a Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded the health insurers due to falling profit margins. Read More Permalink[...]
CNBC |
June 27th, 2008 |
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Aetna Inc. said Friday its board has approved the repurchase of up to $750 million of the health insurer's common stock. Read More Permalink[...]
Google, Microsoft and a bunch of other organizations said yesterday they have agreed to a set of privacy standards for online health records. You can read all about the framework here. It's pretty clear that there's a lot of upside from having peoples' health records online - less redundancy, fewer [...]
In a study sure to raise the stakes in its battle to regulate HMO spending, the California Medical Association has released a study concluding that California health plans generated $4.3 billion in profits last year, while in some cases paying their executives high salaries. It also noted that HMOs spent [...]
HealthBlawg |
June 26th, 2008 |
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An outfit called NewTalk is hosting a 3-day on-line roundtable (today was day 2) on the following question: Chronic care: Do we need an entirely new model of delivery? The all-star panel includes:Troy Brennan, Aetna Inc.Lawrence Casalino, University of ChicagoSusan Dentzer, Health AffairsPhilip Howard, Common GoodBrent James, Intermountain HealthcareNancy Johnson, [...]
Aetna has opened an office in Shanghai, where it hopes to expand its health insurance business. Other insurers such as CIGNA, UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint also have established roots in China, all with an aim to sell supplemental health insurance. "It's a real hotbed place for large U.S. multinational or [...]
As an employee in the finance area, you would be part... department looks for: Bachelor s degree in finance, accounting, economics, math or other related field GPA... (From Monster)[...]
