Each OCGN PowerProfile explores the degree to which an organization bears financial risk for clinical quality and patient outcomes, displays the characteristics of integrated healthcare deliv…
More employer groups are offering high deductible health plans as the sole offering to their employees due to recessionary pressures. Employers are banking on these plans as ways to save on health car…
Health reform doesn't make its biggest splash until 2014, but health plans are getting their feet wet this year having to comply with numerous new mandates in the next 12 months. Among the most ch…
Independence Blue Cross is one of the state’s largest health insurers, but is one of the last to cover its members’ self-injected specialty drugs under the medical benefit. But that’s changing in 2010…
The effects of the recession continue to be seen among carriers in the South, particularly the Blues in both Alabama and Georgia where big drops in enrollment and earnings in 2008 were reported. Howev…
With the economic downturn pushing more Minnesotans out of work, health plans are getting ready for a likely surge in people seeking individual health plans, but are also watching to see if the new fe…
Minnesota is bucking the national trend with growing HMO enrollment while at the same time defying a national movement to significant growth in self-insured products. Market leader Blue Cross and Blue…
While all the major insurers in California now have electronic personal health records in place, only about 5 percent of health plan members are taking advantage of them and the industry is struggling…
If being Number Two means you try harder, then that explains the expansion and new product efforts by Medica and Health Partners, the second- and third-place health plans in Minnesota respectively. Bo…