Insurance Industry

Goldman Sachs Tries to Uncover the New York Times' 'Shoddy' Reporting, Fails Miserably

Poll: Americans Like Barack Obama, Disapprove of Barack Obama; Want Health Care Reform, Disapprove of Health Care Reform, Etc.

​In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, President Obama has a 51 percent approval rating, and the same respondents disapprove of his handling of the economy (53 percent), the deficit (56 percent), and health care (53 percent). They approve of the way he handles terrorism (56 percent), and p ... More >>

RNC Ends Elective Abortion Coverage For their Employees

​The buzz in the right-wing blogosphere yesterday was over Politico's scoop that the RNC chose not to opt out of providing elective abortion coverage for their employees, at least until someone found out that's what they were doing. Politico has accommodatingly made an unannounced edit to the ... More >>

Cuomo Says Non-Profit Health Care Database Ready Soon

Andrew Cuomo says that new non-profit health care database for New Yorkers will be up and running soon. Back in January Cuomo muscled health insurance companies to pony up millions to make good for the Ingenix scandal -- in which the UnitedHealth Group-run info company was found to be providing les ... More >>

GENERAL HOSPITAL

How a centaur raised the world's first doctor

Cuomo Gets More Insurers to Pay Up, Sues Holdout

Since getting Ingenix and UnitedHealth Group to pony up for an independent rate database so health insurance customers won't get fleeced on out-of-network costs, attorney general Andrew Cuomo has been shaking down the rest of the insurance industry. This month he's gotten more than half a million fr ... More >>

Cuomo Gets Aetna to Contribute $20 Million to Database

Tuesday Andrew Cuomo announced he'd gotten Ingenix and subsidiary UnitedHealth Group to give up $50 million* to create a more transparent, independent database for calculating out-of-network health care costs than the one they'd been running. Today he announced that Aetna -- one of the health care c ... More >>

Health Insurer Settles with NY, Will Fund "Independent" Rate Calculator

Last year attorney general Andrew Cuomo brought suit against health care information company Ingenix and its parent company UnitedHealth Group, claiming Ingenix's method of determinng reimbursement rates for out-of-network claims by insurance customers was rigged. At a press conference today Cuom ... More >>

Sorry, Pops: NY Firms Fail to Crack Older-Worker Top 25

Last year attorney general Andrew Cuomo brought suit against health care information company Ingenix and its parent company UnitedHealth Group, claiming Ingenix's method of determinng reimbursement rates for out-of-network claims by insurance customers was rigged. At a press conference today Cuom ... More >>

Daily Flog: Deep inside AIG -- the profits of doom

Last year attorney general Andrew Cuomo brought suit against health care information company Ingenix and its parent company UnitedHealth Group, claiming Ingenix's method of determinng reimbursement rates for out-of-network claims by insurance customers was rigged. At a press conference today Cuom ... More >>

Bill Weld's School Daze

The GOP candidate's troubled term at a construction training college

Morning Report 11/25/05
Curses, Foiled Again!

The GOP candidate's troubled term at a construction training college

Perfect Storms

Perfect for wrecking any chance of economic recovery, that is

Hospital Holiday

Study Finds Poor Oversight of a Billion Health Care Dollars

Nation

Study Finds Poor Oversight of a Billion Health Care Dollars

Blue Cross Hijacked

How the Governor and the State's Most Powerful Union Shortchanged Health Consumers

Financial Fallout

War Exemptions May Affect WTC Insurance Policies

High-Priced Consulting for a Low-Service HMO

War Exemptions May Affect WTC Insurance Policies

Yes, Boss

New York Life Turns Employees Into Lobbyists for China Trade

Managing Maximus

City Contractor in the Spotlight

The Shrink Brigade

Therapists Take On Managed Care

Presidential Prescriptions

Gore and Bradley on Health Care: The Differences Are in the Details

Managed Care Changeover: Bad Rx?

Care for Thousands of Patients Threatened

HMO Umpires

New Managed-Care Referees Make the Calls

Blood From Stones

Troubleshooters Wrangle HMO Bills

Taking Care of Business

Senate Fails to Close Loopholes Protecting Insurers

Uncovered Sex

The Long Overdue Campaign To Force Insurers To Pay For The Pill

Rehab Runaround

An Insurer Dithers and an Addict Dies

Paying Disorders

Insurers Shortchange Bulimics and Anorexics

Profit and Loss

Why the U.S. gets so little bang for its health care buck

Letters

Why the U.S. gets so little bang for its health care buck

Raising Canes

Medicare's elderly defenders take to the streets

What's Up, Doc?

High-paid physicians insist they need unions

Clinic Depression

High-paid physicians insist they need unions

Shrink Rap

Middlemen Eviscerate Mental Health Benefits

Shop 'Til You Drop

Beyond Health Plans' Glossy Brochures

Paper Trial

A Widow Takes on Cigna

The Trueman Show

One lawyer's crusade against managed-care's protective wall

Letters

One lawyer's crusade against managed-care's protective wall

Who Decides?

The struggle over last-chance medical treatments

Wham Bam

As the money dries up, HMOs kiss Medicaid patients goodbye

Repro Man

Did a Park Avenue doc defraud insurers by playing Robin Hood to infertility patients?

The Church's HMO

Fighting for Reproductive Choice for Medicaid Patients

Pain in the Neck

How a Doctor Persuades HMOs To Pay

Lump Sum

A Cancer Patient Says CIGNA Stiffed Him

Letters

A Cancer Patient Says CIGNA Stiffed Him

Empire Turns Back

A family wins its battle with an HMO

Letters

A family wins its battle with an HMO

Damaged Care

'if you're having a heart attack, please press 2...'

On the Mark

Green's populist campaign appeals to Hollywood and Harlem