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Editor's Picks
We look at the strategies behind five major deals this year involving Cigna, Highmark, WellPoint, UnitedHealthGroup, and Aetna, in which the insurers have emphasized horizontal integration, vertical integration, and international opportunities. >>>
By most accounts, Marilyn Tavenner will not bring to the top job at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services the "visionary" status that Don Berwick has enjoyed. Her friends and colleagues, however, suggest that Tavenner is politically astute and unlikely to "be a bomb thrower." >>>
Marilyn Tavenner, tapped to succeed Donald Berwick, MD, as head of the Centers for Medicare Services & Medicaid, is generating a favorable response from a former Administrator and major healthcare industry groups. >>>
Costs for healthcare services covered by commercial plans far outstrip Medicare services growth, even with the federal healthcare program’s older, sicker population, according to Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Indices. Analysts blame cost-shifting. >>>
News Headlines
Newsworks.org, November 30, 2011
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 29, 2011
Reuters Health, November 29, 2011
The Plain Dealer, November 28, 2011
The Washington Post, November 28, 2011
Think Progress, November 23, 2011
HealthLeaders Media, November 21, 2011
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