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…
Scott & White Health Plan has leveraged its vertical integration to keep proton pump inhibitor costs at a fraction of the national average. For the first time, Texans who have received out-of-netw…
Texas has taken its largest step yet toward addressing the nation's worst uninsured rate by green-lighting the first step toward Healthy Texas, a reinsurance program that could allow small busines…
Texas' Medicaid program is on the verge of considerable change with the potential for expansion of managed care into both adult and children's programs. At the same time, the Texas Legislature…
Texas possesses the worst uninsured rate in the nation not just for adults, but children. One in five Texas children lacks health benefits, even though many qualify for Medicaid and the Children's…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas is the immovable behemoth of the Texas market with more than 4.2 million members, but the race for second place is hotly contested, and Aetna has earned silver by leapi…
PPOs may come under more regulatory scrutiny from the Texas Department of Insurance. Proposals being floated would require PPOs operating in Texas to have a certificate of authority and allow the TDI…
Texas' health plans have long benefitted from the Lone Star State's mandatory generic dispensing law, but have gone beyond that to achieve significant generic utilization and subsequent saving…
Medicare Advantage special needs plans are popping up like wildflowers after a rain in Texas, growing in membership and diversity as plans tailor themselves to local and regional needs. Texas' bus…
