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UnitedHealth's Latest Blow To Fee-For-Service Medicine: 6 Percent Off Doctor Costs
2014-10-03 07:33:58| Beverages - Topix.net
I've written about health care for more than two decades, starting from my native Iowa where I covered the presidential campaign bus rides of Bill and Hillary Clinton through the Hawkeye state talking health reform and the economy. I have covered the rise, fall and rise again of health reform, chronicling national trends as well as the influence of Barack and Michelle Obama from Chicago's South Side on changes to the U.S. health system from my base in Chicago.
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UnitedHealth's Optum buys physician-practice management firm
2014-09-30 18:32:17| Beverages - Topix.net
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Optum business will buy MedSynergies Inc. , an Irving-based provider of physician-practice-management software and related consulting services to medical groups. Optum, which has operations in Golden Valley and Eden Prairie, said MedSynergies' business complements Optum's services for large health systems.
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UnitedHealth's Strong Showing With CMS
2014-09-23 01:40:49| Beverages - Topix.net
UnitedHealth Group demonstrates strong pricing discipline, raising premiums and deductibles; we feel confident in United's ability to maintain or improve Medicare Advantage margins in 2015.
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UnitedHealth's 2Q profit slips 2 percent
2014-07-17 13:18:11| Beverages - Topix.net
A son of child molestation convict Jerry Sandusky says Sandusky had a bedtime "ritual" at the family's central Pennsylvania home.
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U.S. Hires UnitedHealth's Slavitt to Lead Obamacare Effort
2014-06-21 08:29:02| Beverages - Topix.net
The UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive whose Optum division helped states and the federal government fix Obamacare health exchanges will become second-in-command at the agency that runs the U.S. program.
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