State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
HealthLeaders-InterStudy has prepared an executive briefing.
If all goes as planned, Medicaid manged care organization Amerigroup will cease to exist as a stand-alone company in late 2012 when it is acquired by WellPoint, the second-largest health insurer in th…
Regional Intelligence Briefings are semi-annual Webinar-based presentations from HealthLeaders-InterStudy analysts. The presentations focus on commercial, provider, care management and healthcare refo…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 25.8 million people in the United States have diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, nontraumatic lo…
With increased diagnosis rates and higher drug prices for multiple sclerosis (MS), U.S. health plans have grown more focused on their coverage of and spending on MS therapies. Partly because of the pr…
Private and Medicare plans will continue their receptiveness to oral oncology therapies over the next five years, but anticipated increases in coinsurance rates and copays will shift more of the cost…
The recent renewal cycle was especially challenging for employers in the Carolinas, owing to the poor economy and new requirements under federal healthcare reform. Carriers continued to increase copay…
The commercial market in Oregon and Washington is seeing an increase in cost sharing with high-deductible plans and higher premiums. Employers are trying to control rising costs by implementing innova…
Health plans in Wisconsin and Minnesota are rolling out new suites of wellness products that offer premium discounts, among other perks, for hitting specified wellness targets. Minnesota's State E…
New York health plans are under more pressure than ever to keep a lid on rates, but their requests for premium increases have been curtailed under the new prior approval law. As one alternative, carri…
In the face of reimbursement pressures and uncertainty, Florida's Medicare and Medicaid insurers have tweaked their offerings as part of strategies to continue enrollment growth while the state…