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Healthcare News: 12/24/2014

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Aetna

Cigna

Highmark

  • Highmark customers feel manipulated by Penn:

    For months it has run TV commercials and newspaper ads warning that Highmark insurance customers could lose access to in-network treatment at UPMC on Jan. 1 if they don’t switch insurance plans. Now the company, according to an email Friday from its chief medical officer to its physicians, will launch an outreach campaign this week to tell the Highmark customers who stayed put that they — and their insurance dollars — are welcome at UPMC, so long as those customers are currently under UPMC care.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2014/12/16/UPMC-s-messages-Highmark-customers-are-feeling-manipulated/stories/201412200004

Humana

United

Healthcare News: 12/10/2014

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Aetna

Cigna

Highmark

Humana

United Health Care

 

Healthcare News: 12/03/2014

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Aetna

Cigna

  • Cigna receives a buy recommendation:

    A number of analysts have recently weighed in on CI shares. Analysts at Bank of America raised their price target on shares of CIGNA from $114.00 to $120.00 in a research note on Tuesday, November 18th. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock. Separately, analysts at Zacks reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of CIGNA in a research note on Monday, November 10th. They now have a $104.00 price target on the stock

    http://www.watchlistnews.com/cigna-receives-consensus-recommendation-of-buy-from-brokerages-nyseci/171625/

  • HDL will be laying off staff while in a lawsuit with Cigna:

    Cigna sued HDL last month in federal court, claiming over HDL was involved in a scheme to collect “exorbitant reimbursement rates for thousands of claims,” reported Forbes. The federal investigation, reported by the Wall Street Journal, focuses on $20 kickbacks HDL offered doctors to order tests. HDL has denied the allegations.

    http://www.nbc12.com/story/27416463/hdl-confirms-layoffs-amid-lawsuits-federal-investigation

  • Cigna working with CT Chamber of Commerce on Critical Choice:

    In a fall enrollment season survey, Cigna discovered that 75 percent of respondents believed that health care costs could ruin their prospects of a secure retirement; while 44 percent worried they won’t have the money to pay for their child’s college education. Cigna’s Critical Choice coverage provides a lump sum payment for covered conditions to help an individual pay medical bills when the unexpected occurs.

    http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/11/18/6540181/cigna-now-working-with-the-connecticut.html?sp=/100/773/385/

Highmark

Humana

United Health