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Concero Technology Teams with Costco, Health Net, and Aetna to Deliver Online Benefits Programs

Concero Technology, a leading provider of proprietary employee benefits insurance portals, announced today that Costco Executive Business Members in Washington can purchase and administer employee benefits insurance online. Concero expanded the wholesaler giants’ healthcare packages to include this user-friendly, cost-effective portal. Costco Wholesale members (NasdaqNM: COST) can now obtain quotes ...

New Aetna Dental® Program Aims To Increase Early Diagnosis And Treatment Of Dental Decay

Aetna (NYSE: ΑET) announced that it is offering a continuing education course to participating dentists that will help them identify individuals who are at greatest risk for dental decay, or caries, with the goal of improving early intervention and prevention. The course, titled "Cariology Update for the Dental Practitioner," offers ...

Broadspire Services Completes Sale of Disability Business to Aetna

Broadspire Services, a Platinum Equity company that is a premier provider of casualty claims, medical management and integrated disability management services, announced today that it has completed the sale of its disability management services division to Aetna, one of the nation's leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability ...

June 23rd 2009
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New Study Shows Uninsured Crisis Wildly Overestimated

The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has released the results of a new study. that shows that the "widely employed estimate of 47 million uninsured Americans is a misleading representation of the problem." The study, authored by Drs. June and David O'Neill of Baruch College and City University of New York, shows ...
June 3rd 2009
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Anthem Blue Cross Provides Access to Comprehensive Transparency Tool

Anthem Blue Cross has announced that its industry-leading transparency initiative will be available to members in the following counties in the state of California: Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Sacramento/Placer and Yolo counties, San Diego, Imperial County, Orange County, San Joaquin/Valley, North Coast/North state, South Bay/South Coast, San ...
June 1st 2009
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BlueCross Makes Coverage Available for South Carolina Graduates Lacking Health Insurance

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers will hire twenty two percent fewer college graduates in 2009 than they did last year. What does that mean? Recent college grads will not have health insurance. They'll either go without health insurance or they will need to purchase ...
May 30th 2009
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Donates to ASCO Cancer Foundation

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), has donated $100,000 to The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Foundation to help support its efforts to advance cancer research, provide patients with important health information and conduct physician education programs. The donation was presented today during the 45th Annual Meeting ...

Top Blue Cross and Blue Shield-Branded Managed Care Organizations Lost More Than One Million Members in the First Half of 2008

HealthLeaders-InterStudy's Managed Market Surveyor-Rx Evaluates How Medical and Pharmacy Lives are Covered at National, State and MSA Levels NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that the 15 largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield-branded managed care organizations collectively lost more than one ...

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