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American Health Line A memo from the head of the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) states that health insurers have "themselves…
Nov 29, 1999Insurers Blatantly Ignore Entreaties to Abide by Ethical Rules
Nov 19, 1999Orange County Register HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA -- You'll soon be able to put your plastic surgery out to bid on the Internet.…
Nov 17, 1999Net Capitol Journal Last year, a coalition of Indian tribes and their political consultants took the initiative business to school with a…
Nov 15, 1999Associated Press Health care experts said the state's new patient rights office should handle complaints about HMOs, put out an annual HMO…
Nov 11, 1999American Health Line Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit HMO, and a coalition of AFL-CIO unions on Tuesday announced an agreement that…
Nov 11, 1999Orlando Sentinel United Healthcare Corp.'s groundbreaking decision to give doctors final authority over patient care won high praise from President Clinton on…
Nov 10, 1999Action by United HealthCare, Which Covers 800,000 Californians, Would Eliminate Pre-Authorizations For PatientsLos Angeles Times In a dramatic sign that health plans…
Nov 9, 1999UnitedHealthcare Has 14.5 Million ClientsWashington Post UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation's largest managed-care companies, said yesterday that it will stop overruling doctors'…
Nov 9, 1999New York Times The United Health Group said yesterday that it was returning decision-making power over patient care to physicians, breaking with…
Nov 9, 1999Riverside Press-Enterprise Recent trends within the health-care industry may help avert a collapse of the medical-group system and a mass disruption of…
Nov 9, 1999First Major Policy Shift By An HMO to Patient and Physician Complaints; Other HMOs Asked To Allow Practicing Doctors To Decide Medical…
Nov 8, 1999The special-interest sponsors of an insurance measure are playing a complicated game with the voters.Los Angeles Times There's nothing new about special…
Nov 7, 1999Soaring Construction Costs, Vanishing Replacement Policies Leave Most UnderinsuredSan Francisco Chronicle If a fire were to level your house tomorrow, do you…
Nov 2, 1999San Diego Union-Tribune Kent Manthorne's troubles began with the discovery of a strange little blotch on his right ear. Years before, he…
Oct 31, 1999The San Diego Union-Tribune Imagine being asked to adopt a child, then, after seeing that infant through its first difficult years, being…
Oct 31, 1999American Health Line Despite Wall Street's support of his "gloves-off" approach to the class-action lawsuit against Aetna, company CEO Richard Huber is…
Oct 27, 1999Relationship between money, health hits skidsUSA TODAY Employers' recent love affair with managed care -- a slimmer, younger, less expensive version of…
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