Uncertainty about the economy and the effects of health reform put a damper on the South's health insurance market. Commercial enrollment is essentially flat in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ten…
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…
A new agreement between Caterpillar and Walgreens could point the way to a change in drug dispensing for large employers. Under this agreement, Caterpillar contracts directly with Walgreens, where 100…
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…
Health plans have begun to put generic dispensing goals into their pay-for-performance packages with some health plans. Advocate Physicians, which works closely with its payors, instituted a focused g…
As many as seven patient-centered medical home projects have cropped up throughout Ohio with CareSource working with providers on a Medicaid-focused PCMH. A medical-home initiative in Cincinnati inclu…
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….
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…
Enrollment in Illinois HMOs continues to decline with the most recent data from HealthLeaders-InterStudy showing a 14 percent decrease from the year before. HMOs now comprise about 18 percent of the c…
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…