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CFO June 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	A Little Less Shifty Employers are passing on less of the health-care burden to workers.
Managed Care January 2002	Employers struggle to preserve pharmacy benefit In an effort to protect the pharmacy benefit for employees, companies are using a variety of techniques to manage expenditures...
Managed Care February 2001	Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along Facing significant increases in health-benefit costs, employers appear less willing to bite the bullet than in the past -- and are passing many of those increases on to workers...
Managed Care July 2002 Frank Diamond	Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution.
Managed Care April 2002	Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye Hewitt Associates found key differences in employers' and employees' views of health coverage...
Managed Care August 2007 John Marcille	Are Purchasers Now The Ones With the Vision? Employers have been doing much more to improve worker health.
Managed Care August 2006	Slowdown in Premium Increase Expected to Continue Into 2007 The only thing falling in terms of health care costs seems to be the rate of increase of premiums - good news for employers and other purchasers.
Managed Care August 2005	Who's Responsible For Controlling Costs? When it comes to controlling rising health care costs, consumers think the responsibility rests squarely on health insurance companies' shoulders, a new survey says.
Managed Care December 2002 MargaretAnn Cross	Advisory Boards Create Company-Plan Cooperation Very effective if used properly, these panels are not yet widespread. However, that could change as industrial customers demand more input.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	The "Naughty List" You Want Your Company On Athenahealth is out with its annual review of how quickly health insurers are paying the claims that doctors make for services.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
Managed Care February 2004	Employers see cost-shifting efforts pay off In the fall of 2002, as employers were getting their first 2003 rates from the health plans, they were looking at a 14-percent increase," says Blaine Bos, one of the study's authors. "Then they took out their scalpel.... In 2003, employers took back lost ground."
Managed Care March 2004	Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
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.
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Peter Coy	Why Your Premiums Are Still On The Rise Kaiser Family Foundation says private employer-sponsored health-insurance premiums rose 13.9% this year, the most since 1989.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	UnitedHealth Sick for Another Year As employers cut back on the number of employees, they also cut back on the number of people insured. Not a good sign for UnitedHealth and the rest of the health insurers.
The Motley Fool March 7, 2008 Brian Orelli	Insurers' Tarnished Reputations Shine Find out which ones rank lowest and why it doesn't matter.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	UnitedHealth Says Good Riddance to 2008 For 2009 the company is looking for earnings essentially flat compared to last year. That doesn't seem so bad, considering that it's expecting to lose as many as 1.5 million members as the unemployment rate grows.
Managed Care November 2000	Expect Premium Hikes To Top 10 Percent in '01 Health plan premium increases are again cracking double digits, according to two important gauges of benefit costs...
Managed Care May 2003	High Profits Seen for HMOs Through 2003 The good times will go on for most health plans in terms of earnings through the rest of this year, experts believe. That's because rate hikes are "in excess of medical trends," Rob Mains, an analyst with Advest, tells Business Insurance.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Who's the Best Health Insurer? A recent survey shows that public companies aren't making the grade. Investors, it's important to remember that these companies are at a competitive disadvantage to some of their counterparts.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Aexcellence From Aetna Low medical costs and good cash flow make this stock worth watching.
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Managed Care July 2006	Headlines On Deadline... Initial bids are in and it appears that premium growth will be slowing... Certification guidelines for health care information technology are in the works... New technology doesn't come cheap... etc.
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Managed Care March 2000	Employers Predict Liability Expansion Bad for Coverage How employers would respond if patients were allowed to sue employer-sponsored health plans.
Managed Care February 2004	Overall, a good climate in 2004 Operating performance is expected to be strong this year, thanks to moderating medical costs and rate increases that are forecast to run between 10 percent and 12 percent, on average.
Managed Care September 2003	Verizon Wants Workers To Pay Part of Premium In yet another instance in which health benefits play a major role in union negotiations, Verizon employees cite that company's plan to make workers pay part of the premium as a major sticking point in talks.
Managed Care January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	UnitedHealth: Beats Earnings, and Gets Beat Down? UnitedHealth was healthy last quarter, but on Wall Street, it's the future that counts.
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.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Health Reform Witch Hunt Congress warms up the tar and feathers for health-insurance execs.
Managed Care August 2000	Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap An affordable option for integrated health care bridging private U.S. insurers and Mexico's social security system would save American employers money while providing better care to Mexicans who work in the U.S. but whose families live in Mexico, according to a study.
Managed Care 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.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health Insurers Hammered. Again. Health insurers were blown away by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' announcement that it plans to raise the 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates by only 0.5%.
Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs.
Managed Care December 2004 Ed Silverman	Spitzer Just Getting Started on Health Care Initial reports of alleged rigged insurance bids focused on major brokers and insurers of commercial lines. But then news quickly surfaced that the New York attorney general was also going to look at the health insurance industry.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2008 Brian Orelli	Health Insurer Lets Outsiders Decide Aetna announces that it'll allow customers with individual health plans to ask for an independent external review before Aetna cancels their policy.
Managed Care September 2005	Plans Continue to Raise Copayments Insurers and employers are passing more and more health care costs along to members. But how much have pharmacy copayments risen?
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Managed Care July 2007	Employers Take Greater Interest in Managing Chronic Conditions According to a new study, employers face major decisions on how (and whether) they will offer health care plans to their employees.
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Managed Care April 2000	More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive? Competition benefits consumers, the theory goes. Policy makers who seek to alter market forces in health care should keep this corollary of capitalism in mind, says the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based think tank....