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Blues' Weight-Loss Program May Be Blueprint for MC Industry With 55 percent of its members obese or overweight and accounting for about $83.1 million in excess costs a year, even some of Blue Cross's sharpest critics agree that Blue Cross's programs are worthy. |
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Headlines On Deadline ... Expanded Medicare coverage for obesity is the result of the government's removal of language from the Medicare manual that states that the condition is not an illness... Earnings soared 36 percent for UnitedHealth Group in the second quarter... etc. |
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Too Far Outside The Box A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. |
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Take The Money And Don't Run Congress is paying companies to keep offering retiree drug coverage. |
