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SPOTLIGHT: Top insurers made $12B in profits
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) alleges that the nation's top five health insurers--UnitedHealth, WellPoint, Aetna, Humana and Cigna--made nearly $12 billion in profits last year, making them more
AHIP donated $86M to lobby against health reform law
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) provided the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business lobbying group, with $86.2 million to oppose the health reform law--while it pledged general support for
Insurers with high profits asked to decrease premiums
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is calling on 10 health insurers that reported significant increases in profits to lower premiums for their customers. He also requested the insurance companies respond
Children's health bill poses threat to physician-owned facilities
Physician-owned hospitals appear to be the punching bag in a bill moving through congress aiming to provide health insurance coverage to low-income children. Critics of the facilities, in particular
Readers react: Physician-owned facilities
As readers of FierceHealthcare know, physician-owned facilities are a hot topic, one that tends to provoke steam coming out of the ears of hospital administrators. Recently, I wrote an editorial
Study: Some healthcare reform bills are better than others
Congress got a little excited at the end of their last session, and introduced almost a dozen bills intended to shrink the number of uninsured patients in the U.S. And while no one bill is likely to
CMS to review Medicare Advantage sales commissions
Troubled by reports that commissions are skyrocketing, CMS officials said last week that they plan to look into the way agents and brokers are compensated by Medicare insurers. Right now, about 10
Are open source EMRs a threat to HIMSS?
You know, unless I'm misreading things, it seems that the leadership of HIMSS dislikes Rep. Pete Stark's pending health IT bill largely because--gasp--it calls for the federally-sponsored
HIMSS objects to parts of Stark health IT bill
You know your health IT initiative is facing a fight when one of the nation's most prominent health information technology groups finds fault with it. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is getting just such a
