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Articles Written by: VANESSA FUHRMANS
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Sometimes it’s easier to make the rap disappear than to fight it.
Health Net is the latest to settle. After being zapped by fines, penalties and court judgments over the past year, the insurer has ...
It’s been 20 months since UnitedHealth’s options-backdating brouhaha shook up the company and led to the ouster of longtime CEO Bill McGuire. But only now are some internal company conversations about the practice coming out into the open.
The Health ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Pension giant Calpers wants a federal judge to unseal reams of documents and executive depositions on UnitedHealth’s backdating scandal that the insurer wants to keep under wraps.
The scandal ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Consumers are shelling out more than ever for health care.
The cost of medical services, including health insurance premiums, for an average family in an employer-sponsored health plan will hit $15,609 ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
As health insurers struggle to find new business, Aetna just landed a big fish: Bank of America, with 200,000 employees plus family members.
Aetna wooed Bank of America with an offer of ...
Customer-service principles that consumers take for granted in other parts of their daily lives are still often lacking in health care. And so it goes for paying for mistakes.
Find a fly in your soup, the restaurant is likely to erase the bill. But ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Wal-Mart has dropped its effort to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars from a brain-damaged former employee’s accident settlement in compensation for what the company spent on her medical expenses. ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Most of the people polled were insured and employed and more than half were in union jobs and/or college graduates, yet an overwhelming number said they were struggling with the cost of health care. ...
The family of Deborah Shank has lost its last chance to stop Wal-Mart Stores from recouping hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses from an accident settlement the Shanks hoped to use for her future care in a nursing home.
Last November, ...
WHEELING, W.Va. - Vic Wood's walk-in clinic here sees patients six days a week and logs roughly 15,000 visits a year. Its sparsely furnished waiting room is packed much of the 11-hour day with people seeking care for conditions ranging from sore ...
From VANESSA FUHRMANS,
Salt Lake Tribune,
27 Oct 2007
