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The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Travel Abroad? Get Back Some Money It's time for credit card companies to pay you back. The result of a recent suit was a settlement that could get you some money back if you've paid currency-conversion fees while traveling in a foreign country between 1996 and 2006.
Managed Care February 2005	Class-Action Suit By 600,000 Docs Heading To Court Discusses a lawsuit filed by about 600,000 physicians against some of the biggest health plans in the country: Humana, PacifiCare, UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint, Anthem, and Health Net. Aetna and Cigna were named but settled out of court.
Managed Care October 2004	Headlines On Deadline ... Good news for government workers... PPO demonstration projects for Medicare in 2001 and 2002 ... A class-action lawsuit filed by 900,000 physicians... Seventy-eight percent of the country wants universal health care... etc.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
Managed Care August 2005	Malpractice Payouts Flat But Premiums Rise 120% From 2000 to 2004, the amount that major malpractice insurers have collected in premiums has more than doubled, yet their payouts for compensatory damages have remained essentially flat.
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
Managed Care January 2002 Donald Wilcox & Stephanie Kanwit	Debating RICO Suits vs. Health Plans States Failed To Protect Docs From Insurers... Patients Will Suffer; Greedy Lawyers to Blame...
The Motley Fool August 5, 2008 Brian Orelli	Humana Not Hurting ... as Much Humana's stock jumped because the company had guided for an even bigger drop in the bottom line than it posted.
Managed Care August 2001 John Carroll	Info on Questionable Physicians Languishes in National Data Bank A clearinghouse was created that stores details about malpractice suits and disciplinary actions. So how come HMOs don't use it?
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Sarah J. Evans	Newsletter AAFP Survey Shows Increased Use of EHR Systems by FPs... AHRQ Launches New Health Care Program... AAFP Asks Members to Join Title VII Campaign... AHRQ Rewards Over $22.3 Million for Health Information Technology... etc.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Apple Settles iPod Battery Claim Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the rechargeable battery in its popular iPod.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	The "Naughty List" You Want Your Company On Athenahealth is out with its annual review of how quickly health insurers are paying the claims that doctors make for services.
Registered Rep. December 22, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Spitzer Wants More Settlement Dollars for New York UBS Reps New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer is asking a Northern California court to disapprove the settlement terms of an overtime suit against UBS.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	PayPal to Pay Up on Class Action Suit The person-to-person payment enabler will pay up for alleged mess-ups.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health Insurers Hammered. Again. Health insurers were blown away by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' announcement that it plans to raise the 2010 Medicare Advantage payment rates by only 0.5%.
Managed Care December 2002 Diane Cook	Beware the Hidden Consequences of the Malpractice Crisis Soaring malpractice insurance rates are thinning out provider ranks in at least a dozen states. Could access problems pose issues for HMOs in those areas?
Managed Care May 2005 Michael S. Victoroff	Class Action Suit: Windfall or Just Wind? Is using the tort system and class action lawsuits the best way to solve problems between business professionals? That and $54.37 can go toward the creation of a foundation to bring about meaningful organizational change.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Doctor Is Killing You ... Financially What the doctor does has a big effect on how much health care costs.
Managed Care July 2004	Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members The opening murmurs in negotiations between health plans and large employers have been heard. Insurers are expected to seek an average 13.7 percent hike in premiums in 2005, according to a survey of 160 large employers.
Managed Care September 2006	Malpractice Premiums Constitute Small Component of Expenses Few issues galvanize the medical community like the cost of malpractice insurance, but a recent survey shows that the increases are less severe than many physician advocacy groups suggest.
Managed Care October 2003	Effects of rising malpractice premiums said to be overstated Health plans worried that the malpractice crisis may begin to affect access to physicians for their members may breathe a bit more easily, though there is still some cause for concern.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Brian Orelli	Health Insurers Are Not AIG Health insurers get hammered this week.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Brian Orelli	WellPoint Won't Pay The insurance giant refuses to pay for doctors' mistakes.
InternetNews July 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	PayPal Payout Pending If you opened a PayPal account between October 1999 and January 2004, you may be entitled to a payment from a class action settlement.
Managed Care June 2003	Malpractice Fury Raises Concerns About Access Protests by physicians over rising malpractice insurance premiums may be signaling a political shift that could make doctors see Republicans as their allies, a public-advocacy official thinks.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Witch Hunt, Round 2? Humana mails Medicare Advantage members about health-care reform, and not everyone approves.
CFO March 1, 2003 Joan Urdang	Return to Sender? Companies often fail to collect on class-action lawsuits.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Humana Offers Some Reassurance Caught between tough pricing and rising costs, can Humana continue to grow? Its stock has been up more than 50% over the past three months and up more than 100% from the 52-week lows.
Managed Care February 2002	Industry Braces for Fallout From Docs' Malpractice Woes Malpractice insurance premiums are going up so quickly that many physicians are feeling pressure to stop offering certain procedures, to move to states that are friendlier to medical practices, or even to retire early...
The Motley Fool March 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Insurers to Washington: We're Not the Problem Insurers say they're a small piece of the problem pie.
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June.
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system.
Managed Care June 2007	Which Insurer is Best at Paying Docs? Prompt and accurate payment by insurers is important to physicians. Here are the best and the worst insurers at paying.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	Shockingly Cheap and Destined to Stay That Way? Humana has a nice quarter, but it's priced based on the uncertain future.
AskMen.com Nick Kennedy	The Health Care Debate: The Basics The real debate that's sucking the air out of the country and turning cozy town hall meetings into WWE smackdowns is the issue of health care reform.
Managed Care July 2006	Headlines On Deadline... Initial bids are in and it appears that premium growth will be slowing... Certification guidelines for health care information technology are in the works... New technology doesn't come cheap... etc.
InternetNews December 23, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Comcast Will Pay to End P2P Suit But the issue only touches the larger debate surrounding network neutrality.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Medicare's Big Experiment The coming changes to Medicare aim to cut costs while improving care. Sound familiar?
The Motley Fool November 2, 2004 Richard Gibbons	Humana Hummin' Despite Hurdles The health-care benefits company showed signs of life when it bounced 6% on news that third-quarter earnings had beaten estimates by 18% and it was raising earnings guidance.
Financial Advisor December 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Strong Financial Medicine Specializing in health care professionals is an advisory specialty that is now both worthwhile and in high demand because of the complexity of issues that come along with serving medical practitioners.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	One Healthy Partnership Health insurer Humana and CVS Caremark's MinuteClinic are expanding their relationship, in what looks like a healthy deal for both sides.
BusinessWeek September 16, 2009 Catherine Arnst	The Truth About Malpractice Lawsuits President Barack Obama tapped into a large vein of public support when he suggested recently that he is open to reforming medical malpractice laws.
Information Today October 11, 2012 George H. Pike	Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google.
Managed Care December 2004 Ed Silverman	Spitzer Just Getting Started on Health Care Initial reports of alleged rigged insurance bids focused on major brokers and insurers of commercial lines. But then news quickly surfaced that the New York attorney general was also going to look at the health insurance industry.
BusinessWeek March 4, 2010 Clayton Christensen	Health Care: The Simple Solution When it comes to reform, we should drop the public-private debate. The way to cut costs is to put care and insurance in the same bed.
Managed Care July 2002 Frank Diamond	Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution.
Managed Care November 2003	Malpractice protection efforts seem to come up short Medical malpractice insurance premiums continue to rise, even as some states place caps on non-economic damages, according to a survey by Weiss Ratings.
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