WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration stepped up pressure on health insurance companies on Thursday, calling on some of the top U.S. companies to be more public in explaining "jaw-dropping" rate increases to consumers. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, following a White House ...
<div id="subtitle">Health insurer Aetna reports slight 1st-quarter profit rise; unexpected cost increase</div><div><p>Health insurer Aetna Inc. gained more than a million new members in the first quarter and reported a modest profit increase Wednesday. But higher-than-expected medical costs, a problem many insurers wrestled ...
<div id="subtitle">Insurer Aetna to allow customers access to Microsoft HealthVault for record storage</div><div><p>Health insurer Aetna Inc. is becoming the first health insurer to team with Microsoft Corp. to give its customers an Internet-based vault for storing medical records they can access even ...
<div id="subtitle">Aetna's 3rd-quarter profit dives 44 percent, outlook cut as investment losses take their toll</div><div><p>Investment losses nearly chopped Aetna's third-quarter profit in half, and the managed care company said shaky financial markets create uncertainty for next year as well.</p><p ...
<div id="subtitle">Managed care company Aetna offers free credit monitoring after jobs Web site is breached</div><div><p>Aetna Inc. will offer free credit monitoring for a year to about 65,000 people after some e-mails were copied from the health insurer's job application Web site.</p> ...
<div id="subtitle">Aetna cuts full-year profit outlook, citing higher commercial costs, lower Medicare revenue</div><div><p>Managed-care company Aetna Inc. on Tuesday cut its full-year profit expectations below analysts' forecasts due mainly to rising commercial medical costs and lower projected Medicare revenue.</p><p>The Connecticut-based ...
<div id="subtitle">Wall Street edged higher Tuesday following a strong rise in pending home sales, while energy profit-taking weighed on the TSX.</div><div><p>Today on Stockhouse </p><p>Your opinion matters. Submit an article to Stockhouse today at submissions@stockhouse.com. Submission guidelines can be ...
<div><p>Congressional investigators said Wednesday two-thirds of the U.S. health insurance industry used a faulty database that overcharged patients for seeing doctors outside their insurance network, costing Americans billions of dollars in inflated medical bills.</p><p>The flawed database is operated by Ingenix, a subsidiary ...
<div id="subtitle">UnitedHealth gets military health contract worth up to $21.8 billion, Aetna wins $16.7B pact</div><div><p>The Pentagon said Monday it has awarded military health care contracts worth tens of billions of dollars to managed care providers Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc., deciding ...
<div><p>Shares of Humana Inc. and Health Net Inc. tumbled Tuesday, a day after the Pentagon decided against renewing lucrative regional military health insurance contracts with both companies.</p><p>Humana's shares lost $2.31, or 7.6 percent, to close at $28.28 in Tuesday trading, while Health ...
