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November 2007 |
Underwriting Earnings Slow, But Investment Gains Soar First-quarter underwriting gains for the health insurance industry declined in 2007, while investment gains were up nearly 42% compared with the same period last year.   |
Managed Care
April 2007
John Carroll |
Mergers: Is Bigger Better? Health plan consolidation has its upside, but some who contract with insurers see only the downside. |
Insurance & Technology
October 29, 2003
Greg MacSweeney |
What's your Legacy plan? One thing's for sure: A monolithic approach won't work. Depending on the particular application and platform, insurers' legacy replacement/enhancement strategies vary widely according to the project specifics. |
Insurance & Technology
January 20, 2009
Nathan Conz |
In Depth: Highmark Launches Retail Initiatives Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is launching two retail insurance stores in the first quarter of 2009. |
Insurance & Technology
February 19, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Tech Could Assist State-Based Reform Acknowledging that legacy technologies are not the only antiquated systems in insurance, carriers, trade associations and commissioners are aggressively approaching the regulatory reform of the insurance industry |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Congress to Insurers: Say Goodbye to Your Monopoly There's growing support in Congress to repeal insurers' federal antitrust exemption. |
Managed Care
September 2003 |
Anthem Blocked In Bid To Buy BCBS of Kansas The consolidation of member plans in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has hit yet another snag. The Kansas Supreme Court on Aug. 6 upheld an order blocking the $190 million sale of the not-for-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to Anthem, a for-profit operation. |
Insurance & Technology
August 8, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Flexibility, New Technology Key To Attracting Young IT Workers Insurance companies must compete not only with one another, but across industries to attract the brightest among the next generation of IT workers. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2004 |
The Financial Services 40: Tracking Innovation In Financial Services The traditionally risk-averse insurance industry is discovering that innovation is not such a scary concept. The firms that are able to deploy technology in innovative, customer-focused ways consistently have a competitive advantage generating profits and building market share. |
Insurance & Technology
May 14, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Rethinking Policy Admin Here, industry experts discuss how legacy systems can hamper insurers' abilities to grow and be flexible and how next-generation policy administration systems can deliver increased efficiency and improved customer service. |
Managed Care
December 2002
Frank Diamond |
Blues on the Move The resurgence of what was once primarily known as the insurer of last resort has been breathtaking. Can it be sustained? Even better, replicated? |
Insurance & Technology
November 26, 2003
Cynthia Saccocia |
Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field. |
Managed Care
June 2002 |
Small Companies Seeking Caps On Premiums Small-business owners in Michigan have released a survey that they hope will prompt legislation to prevent some health insurers from "overpricing" policies. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Mike Ura |
Leveraging Outsourcing for Business Transformation Outsourcing increasingly is being used in the insurance industry to facilitate transformation IT objectives, rather than just cutting costs or delivering operational efficiencies. |
Insurance & Technology
September 7, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Main Driver Behind STP Initiatives Today Is Ease Of Doing Business Straight-through processing is more a business issue than a technology, and is fundamental to the ability to drive intelligence into the underwriting process and throughout the organization. |
Insurance & Technology
August 11, 2010
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Republic Idemnity CIO Discusses Claims Modernization Following a successful claims system replacement, Republic Indemnity's Rao Tadepalli offers tips to insurers looking to modernize their claims platforms. |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 27, 2004
Katherine Burger |
Tracking Innovation in Financial Services The idea of innovation has been on a conceptual roller coaster in recent years. |
Managed Care
July 2004 |
Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members The opening murmurs in negotiations between health plans and large employers have been heard. Insurers are expected to seek an average 13.7 percent hike in premiums in 2005, according to a survey of 160 large employers. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Matthew Josefowicz |
Responding to a Changing Market: The Core Is Key Core systems replacement has been compared to open-heart surgery -- it is one of the most drastic changes that insurers can make to their IT infrastructures. |
Managed Care
February 2005 |
Class-Action Suit By 600,000 Docs Heading To Court Discusses a lawsuit filed by about 600,000 physicians against some of the biggest health plans in the country: Humana, PacifiCare, UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint, Anthem, and Health Net. Aetna and Cigna were named but settled out of court. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2007
Emil Lee |
Three Low-P/E Insurance Stocks Surveying the insurance industry for investment bargains. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Highmark's Telecom Upgrade Independent Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee Highmark significantly expanded a six-year relationship with telecommunications services provider TelCove through a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract. |
Insurance & Technology
January 22, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Highmark and Independence Blue Cross Withdraw Merger Applications Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and Independence Blue Cross have announced that they have withdrawn their applications to merge, citing opposition from the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2005
Dayana Yochim |
Broken Hip = Bankrupt Retirement? How to keep extreme medical costs from wrecking your retirement. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Web Now More of a Focus for Allstate's Brune Like many of her peers, Allstate SVP and CIO Catherine Brune's responsibilities get broader every day. |
Managed Care
December 2007 |
Web Site Helps Track Health Plan Rankings U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have released the third edition of America's Best Health Plans, an annual ranking of health maintenance organizations and point-of-service plans. |
Insurance & Technology
July 30, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
BCBSMN Names Anudeep Parhar VP of Technology Strategy and Planning Reporting to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota CIO Jay Levine, Anudeep Parhar will be responsible for overseeing the development of a multi-year information technology strategy. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2004
Lisa Valentine |
Driving Innovation at Allstate How one innovator moved her company from "silos and chimneys" to a common services architecture in which application components are reused. |
Insurance & Technology
September 9, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Anthem Embraces Social Networking In Wisconsin, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is leveraging a variety of social networking tools to interact with its members. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
H$As: Sharing Some insurers are seeking to offer an end-to-end HDHP/HSA solution by creating their own banks to serve as custodians of the accounts. The challenge for banks is to make health insurers offering HDHPs see the value of what banks can bring to the overall consumer-directed health experience. |
