The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
The Integrated Payer Platform combines data about health plans, PBMs and employer health benefits into one streamlined view, enabling users to fully assess market opportunities and obstacles and minim…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
Chronic pain is a multi-billion dollar market saturated with well-established branded and generic analgesics that are only partially effective. While drugs with novel mechanisms of action that offer g…
The HMO subsidiary of Michigan's largest health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has begun the process to purchase an independent, Lansing-based HMO, Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michi…
Michigan has awarded its bids to health plans administering Medicaid throughout the state, granting additional territory and clout to two regional players and rebuffing another major plan's attemp…
In what may be a coming trend among large-scale employers with self-managed pharmacy plans, General Mills has hired its own in-house pharmacists to do medication management with targeted employees….
Economic turmoil is nothing new in Michigan, where the auto industry's woes continue to get worse, and job losses and layoffs continue to shrink the healthcare market. Against that backdrop, Blue…
The shift in employers' attitudes toward wellness and healthcare cost management has brought workplace health clinics back into vogue, mostly among large self-insured businesses, but also among so…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has made its own in-house provider portal into the go-to site for Medicare elibibility and benefit information, even for those who are not its customers. In…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan got only a portion of the insurance reforms it sought in the Michigan legislature, at least in part because of opposition from its competitor health plans. But the c…
The Michigan health insurance industry has been preoccupied with a legislative battle over the individual health insurance market that pits Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan against other health plan…