Owning a Health Plan is Not Enough

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/health-plans/owning-health-plan-not-enough

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Unless senior leaders encourage a culture of cooperation, provider-owned health plans will have a relationship with the provider network that is just as acrimonious as that of any outside payer, says SelectHealth’s CEO.

Competition Among Medicare’s Private Health Plans: Does It Really Exist?

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/aug/competition-medicare-private-plans-does-it-exist

Five attributes of health plans poised to win

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/five-attributes-health-plans-poised-win

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Moda Health’s financial hit due to underfunded federal program larger than expected

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/10/moda-healths-financial-hit-due-to-underfunded.html?ana=e_ptl_hc&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1444506175

Moda Health's logo adorns Moda Center. The insurance carrier won't get as much money as it had hoped from the "risk corridor" program.

Meet Providence Health Plan’s new CEO

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/10/meet-providence-health-plans-new-ceo.html?ana=e_ptl_hc&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1443902881

Incoming CEO Mike Cotton comes to Providence Health Plan from Humana Inc.

Video: Humana CEO Bruce Broussard on technology, value-based pay and Medicare Advantage

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150417/VIDEO/150419904?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=externalURL&utm_campaign=mostreq

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7-Eleven: The one-stop shop for Slurpees and health insurance?

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/7-eleven-the-one-stop-shop-for-slurpees-and-health-insurance.html

Glasses and Pen