GA, CA Hospitals Sue Blue Cross Plan for Sending ER Reimbursements To Patients

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/ga-ca-hospitals-sue-blue-cross-plan-sending-er-reimbursements-patients?spMailingID=9138342&spUserID=MTMyMzQyMDQxMTkyS0&spJobID=942934540&spReportId=OTQyOTM0NTQwS0

Hospital Lawsuit

That’s costing the hospitals money since patients don’t always turn over the funds, according to the lawsuits, filed by Polk Medical Center in northwest Georgia and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles.

Reflections from Health Republic’s top exec as business winds down

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/12/reflections-from-health-republics-top-exec-as.html?ana=e_ptl_hc&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1450463409

Going Out of Business

The three trends that will carry into next year

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/three-trends-will-carry-next-year

Sales Graph

The creepiness factor in healthcare data analytics

http://www.cio.com/article/2955923/health-analytics/the-creepiness-factor-in-healthcare-data-analytics.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-08-04%20Healthcare%20Dive

Privacy

UnitedHealth’s second-quarter growth all about expanding beyond insurance business

http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/story/unitedhealths-second-quarter-growth-all-about-expanding-beyond-insurance-bu/2015-07-16

Insurer grew 11 percent year-over-year in Q2 to exceed $36 billion in revenues

 

Aetna/Humana merger shuts out UnitedHealth (but not all the way)

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2015/07/aetna-humana-merger-shuts-out-unitedhealth-but-not.html?ana=e_du_wknd&s=article_du&ed=2015-07-11&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1436633251

This is the sign outside the headquarters of UnitedHealth Group Inc., in Minnetonka, Minn. Photographer: Dawn Villella/Bloomberg News.

 

Theranos strikes deal with Capital BlueCross, lands on East Coast

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/theranos-strikes-deal-capital-bluecross-lands-east-coast?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohuq3KZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GSsBqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

The testing company that could upend America's diagnostics market will partner with Capital BlueCross in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to bring the company's new direct-to-consumer blood testing options to the insurer's 1.3 million members.

The diagnostics disruptor and an insurer of a 1.3 million are taking affordable lab tests directly to patients.

4 huge impacts of the King v. Burwell decision

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/4-huge-impacts-of-the-king-v-burwell-decision/401341/

Pending Obamacare U.S. Supreme Court decision won’t affect Hawaii

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2015/06/24/pending-obamacare-u-s-supreme-court-decision-wont.html?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2015-06-24&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1435241891

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC.