News tagged with health insurance companies
Unique 'listening' technology tackles widespread fraud issues
Alaris, a joint venture startup company between ASU and Rolls-Royce, aims to tackle health care insurance fraud that is estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion each year. This partnership was ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance
Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health ...
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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US says 129 million people have health woes
As many as 129 million people in the United States, or almost half of those under 65, have a pre-existing condition that could bar them from health insurance, a government report said Tuesday.
Jan 18, 2011 |
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High deductible likely chosen by the healthy, educated
Healthier people are more likely to select a high-deductible health plan over a conventional plan, according to data from several employers that first offered the option in 2006. Participants choosing one of the new plans ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Germany cuts health care spending, raises premiums
(AP) -- Faced with a ballooning deficit in Germany's health care system, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided Tuesday to raise premiums and cut into the profits of doctors, dentists, hospitals and pharmaceutical ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Dispensing prescription drugs in 3-month supplies reduces drug costs by a third
Purchasing prescription drugs in a three-month supply rather than a one-month supply has long been regarded as a way to reduce the cost of drugs for patients and third-party payers. New research from the University ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Time running out for bipartisan health compromise
(AP) -- Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement.
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks
More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Report concludes uninsured are costly for all
(AP) -- The average family with health insurance shells out an extra $1,000 a year in premiums to pay for health care for the uninsured, a new report finds.
May 28, 2009 |
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Obama lauds industry offer to cut health costs
(AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed the health care industry's promise to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years as "a watershed event" in the long search for a solution to the millions of ...
May 11, 2009 |
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Health care cost cuts could kick-start reform
(AP) -- When President Bill Clinton took on health care reform, industry leaders fought back, killing the White House proposal before it could gain any traction.
May 11, 2009 |
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Health groups offer $2 trillion in cost savings
(AP) -- President Barack Obama's plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality Sunday after leaders of the health care industry offered $2 trillion in spending ...
May 11, 2009 |
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