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January 2005
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Breast Cancer Screening: Some Plans Do Better Than Others Some of the nation's best health plans are coming up with creative ways to encourage women to get mammograms.   |
Managed Care
March 2007
Lola Butcher |
Plans Put Greater Emphasis On Cancer Management Increasingly, health plans are rolling out services designed to help cancer patients and, before that, plan members at a high risk of cancer, to improve their health care and, in doing so, limit costs. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Are Making Business More Personal Insurers such as Humana and WellPoint pursue an ideal of customer intimacy with highly personalized documents and phone communications. |
Managed Care
March 2008 |
Proposed 2009 HEDIS Measures Address Immunization, Obesity Rates The National Committee for Quality Assurance wants to expand what the committee's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures look at in 2009. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2008
Brian Orelli |
WellPoint Is Not Well WellPoint lowers guidance on its earnings per share from 15% in 2008 to only 4% to 8%. |
Managed Care
March 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Preventive Care: Can We Do a Better Job? HMOs place great stock in disease prevention, but some highly recommended services go uncovered. Plans and purchasers often don't agree on priorities... |
Managed Care
March 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Managing Cancer Treatment Begins Before Diagnosis Health plans are increasingly involved in promoting the lifestyle changes that help their members avoid cancer, and are increasingly involved in clinical trials if prevention fails. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Breast-Cancer Screening: How to Choose Women have varying risk factors for breast cancer and face more test options. Here are some key considerations for making a suitable choice. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2001
Jim Nuovo |
New Tests for Cervical Cancer Screening Recently, a number of new technologies have been developed to improve the detection of cervical cancer and its precursors. However, there is substantial controversy about whether the new tests offer meaningful advantages over the conventional Pap smear... |
Health
October 10, 2008 |
Cervical Cancer FAQ Signs, symptoms, prevention, and treatments are some of the topics explained here. |
Insurance & Technology
August 18, 2010
Nathan Golia |
Insurers Take Lead in EHR Implementation With guidelines for meaningful use of electronic health records established, health carriers expect IT improvements on the provider side to lower healthcare costs by reducing care redundancies and readmissions. |
Insurance & Technology
October 12, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Lori Beer Drives IT to the Next Level at Post-Merger WellPoint Elite 8 honoree Lori Beer's tenure as CTO of WellPoint in the wake of the Anthem merger has helped position her to drive major platform consolidation and enterprise data and architecture initiatives as the insurer's CIO. |
Insurance & Technology
October 12, 2005
Lisa Valentine |
Mission: Integration The CIO of the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company in the U.S. shares his enterprise application integration strategy that has enabled WellPoint to reduce operating costs and integrate acquisitions quickly. |
CIO
April 30, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
Can Watson, IBM's Supercomputer, Cure Cancer? WellPoint and Cedars-Sinai are putting IBM's supercomputer Watson to the test in pilots targeting cancer treatment and improved EMRs. |
Insurance & Technology
May 29, 2008
Nathan Conz |
WellPoint Launches Mobile Provider Directory The driving force behind the initiative, according to Mark Boxer, president and CEO for WellPoint's operations, technology and government services business unit, was the insurer's continued focus on improving the customer experience. |
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Good Health Care News New advice from the American Cancer Society puts a sharper focus on the risks of prostate cancer screening, emphasizing that annual testing can lead to unnecessary biopsies and treatments that do more harm than good. |
Managed Care
February 2008
Lola Butcher |
Wellness Programs: No Longer Just an Add-On In the face of stiff competition from a growing category of dedicated wellness companies, major health plans are launching sophisticated, ambitious programs to slake employers' thirst for these products |
Insurance & Technology
January 28, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Legislative Reform Remains a Long-Term Issue for Health Insurance IT The death of proposed reform legislation in Washington could mean more rather than less regulation for the insurance industry. But it is unlikely to change the course of IT investment influenced by long-term reform considerations. |
Managed Care
July 2006
Martin Sipkoff |
Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care. |
Managed Care
June 2004
Tony Berberabe |
Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad? |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2007
Billy Fisher |
WellPoint Well on Its Way Mega-cap health insurance company WellPoint posts a Q3 operating revenue increase of 5.2%; there was more good news regarding growth and buybacks. |
Insurance & Technology
January 7, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Real-Time Information Crucial To Informed Healthcare Decisions Facing increased pressure to control costs, the health insurance industry must empower consumers to make informed healthcare decisions by providing them with access to real-time information. |
American Family Physician
November 15, 2000 |
Letters to the Editor Further Discussion on the Role of Pap Smear Screening |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 26, 2003 |
The Mammogram Experiment: How Emotions Can Affect High-Stakes Decision-Making A breast cancer scare that turns out to be a false alarm is cause for relief, but may also trigger delays in future mammogram screenings, according to new Wharton research. |
Insurance & Technology
November 2, 2007
Nathan Conz |
WellPoint Partners With Zagat Having identified peer-to-peer member communication as a missing element in the decision-making tools it delivers to its members, WellPoint has partnered with Zagat Survey to create an online tool that will allow members to share with one another their experiences with physicians. |
Managed Care
September 2005 |
Headlines On Deadline ... WellPoint and Cigna are turning heads in the financial world... California health insurers have marked Jan. 1, 2007 on their calendars... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2011 |
A Brief History of WellPoint's Returns WellPoint's normalized earnings per share grew by an average of 16.9% a year from 2001 until today. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2000 |
Screening Yourself for Breast Cancer Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. Women more than 20 years of age should know the signs of breast cancer and the best ways to find it early. How do I perform a breast self-exam? When should I have my mammogram? Clinical Breast Exam. Ultrasound exam. Breast Biopsies. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Can Lab Corp Meet the Value Test? Here is a fine and well-run company, but not really a bargain for investors. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2011
Jordan DiPietro |
Should You Buy and Hold WellPoint? Does this company have the traits of a good retirement stock? WellPoint's dividend is 1.5%. This might not seem like a whole lot right now, but that dividend has room to grow, so I wouldn't discount its importance. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2007
Billy Fisher |
A Healthy Diet of Profits at WellPoint For the nation's largest health insurer, the waters aren't always going to be smooth for sailing. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
April 29, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Health Could Mean Wealth for Microsoft A partnership with WellPoint Health Networks aims to persuade doctors to go wireless on PocketPCs. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
WellPoint Looking Well Indeed Solid enrollment numbers, good cost control, and national leverage make this a compelling health benefits company. It may be time to seriously consider owning this stock. |
Insurance & Technology
February 3, 2010
Nathan Conz |
Larry Glasscock to Retire as WellPoint Chairman Wellpoint has announced that Larry C. Glasscock is retiring as chairman of the board of directors and will be replaced by CEO Angela F. Braly, effective march 1, 2010. |
Insurance & Technology
August 6, 2010
Nathan Golia |
WellPoint Providing Financing for Health IT WellPoint hopes that favorable interest rates on loans and other financial incentives will ease adoption of technology among rural hospitals and other providers. |
