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Blue Shield ACO reduced costs, lowered readmissions by 15 percent

One key to reducing medical costs is collaboration among insurers and their members and providers and their patients within accountable care organizations (ACOs) because everyone is focused on

Three states of mind about the California HFMA Conference

I was bewitched, bothered and bewildered by a seemingly unlikely catalyst: last week's Healthcare Financial Management Association's California conference. The keynote speaker was a physician and CEO

CalPERS tests e-prescribing

The California Public Employees' Retirement System provides benefits to more than 1.6 million employees, retirees and dependents, and manages more than $656 million in assets. So when it announced

UnitedHealth gets initial OK to settle options suit for $895M

A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a deal that would allow UnitedHealth Group to pay $895 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over backdated stock options. The deal would not only

UnitedHealth reveals details of option back-dating settlement

In a new SEC filing, UnitedHealth Group has finally revealed some details of its previously-announced resolution to the class-action settlement shareholders filed over stock-option backdating by

UnitedHealth settles securities suit for $895M

UnitedHealth Group has agreed to settle a federal securities class-action lawsuit brought by a group of major shareholders for $895 million. The move, coming at a time of financial challenges for the