Now that federal healthcare reform is passed, insurance companies and their regulators are turning their focus to immediate tasks, in particular setting up a high-risk pool for an estimated 5,000 indi…
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Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are looking at the health reform law, planning ways to minimize losses and take advantage of opportunities. In North Carolina, federal and state high risk pools…
Tennessee health plans continued to show declining enrollment as the “jobless recovery” began in early 2010, and health plans are anticipating a renewal season that will see increasing numbe…
The early returns from a massive valued-based benefit design initiative in Kansas City have led to five new pilots nationwide. In concert with its PBM, CVS Caremark, the Kansas State Employee Health P…
The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will, in the short run, expand coverage for young people, create new high-risk pools, shift incentives for Medicaid drug rebates and make…
Medicaid programs in the District of Columbia and Virginia are looking at ways to save money and adapt to changes mandated in the federal health reform law. The District is planning to shift the costs…
Unable to reach a compromise between the House and Senate, Florida's state Legislature did not expand Medicaid Reform, which requires beneficiaries in certain counties elect to join an HMO or a Pr…
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…
Thousands of state residents currently receiving care in Wisconsin through the state-subsidized BadgerCare Plus program could be moved into state exchanges as a part of national healthcare reform. How…
Health reform could completely change the landscape of Texas healthcare, bringing new people into the system while challenging smaller plans to meet requirements on their spending on medical care. Med…
Healthcare reform will be less of a game-changer in the TriState, at least for New York and New Jersey, which already ban medical underwriting, exert some controls over insurer rates and benefit plans…
Individual states are on the frontline for implementing the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A few of the first pieces of that landmark legislation include the implementatio…
A decision by Gov. Pat Quinn to bid out two contracts to serve the aged, blind and disabled population in Illinois' Medicaid program represents a return to the HMO model in a state that had essent…
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…
