Aetna's $1 billion deal to buy Prudential HealthCare isn't sailing through the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust review as quickly as Aetna's previous health-care acquisitions.
Connecticut insurance regulators will hold a public hearing Friday on Aetna's planned purchase of Prudential HealthCare, which is drawing protests from the state medical society and a California consumer group.
Should the life and death appeals of HMO patients really be in the hands of private reviewers who are hired by the HMO and use private protocols to reach their decisions? Privatization advocates have long tried to turn public control of our schools, cour
A jury in California yesterday awarded $116 million in punitive damages to a patient's widow who contends he died after a subsidiary of Aetna Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, delayed approving treatment for stomach cancer that its own doctors ha
Should the life-and-death appeals of HMO patients really be in the hands of private reviewers who are hired by the HMO and use private protocols to reach their decisions? Privatization advocates have long tried to turn public control of our schools, cou
Aetna U.S. Healthcare is the managed-care company many physicians love to hate. Once a genteel company that earned the nickname "Mother Aetna," the giant health insurer is coming under fire from Houston-area doctors as it prepares to take over more than
One of the most hard-nosed of all the health plans, Blue Cross of California, has yielded ground in recent negotiations with three San Gabriel Valley hospitals, agreeing to raise its reimbursements for medical procedures.
Should the life and death appeals of HMO patients really be in the hands of private reviewers funded by an HMO industry that use private protocols to reach their decisions? Privatization advocates have long tried to turn public control of our schools, co
Twenty-two California health maintenance organizations, which cover nearly all of the state's HMO members, have agreed to allow patients who are denied treatment to appeal to an outside panel of doctors.
