Insurers in Minnesota requested premium rate increases ranging from about 36 percent to over 66 percent on individual Affordable Care Act exchange plans next year.
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Three-fourths of plans offered on 2017 Affordable Care Act exchanges in 18 states and the District of Columbia will have limited provider choice, Chicago-based consulting firm McKinsey & Company found.
The CEOs of the 14 biotech and pharmaceutical companies included in Standard & Poor's 500 that held their roles for the full 2015 fiscal year earned median compensation packages of $18.5 million for that year, according to USA Today analysis…
Wages across the country grew 3.4 percent year-over-year in July, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Jeff Yarbro and Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) are asking GOP majority leaders to hold a hearing regarding the state's approval of double-digit health insurance premium rate hikes, the Times Free Press reports.
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New York City-based Empire BlueCross BlueShield will offer new health plans for small businesses in the state of New York purchasing health insurance for 2017, the Albany Business Review reported.
The median in-network deductible for employer-sponsored preferred provider organization health plans jumped from $1,000 in 2015 to $1,500 in 2016, or a 50 percent increase, according to new research from United Benefit Advisors.
Fargo, N.D.-based Sanford Medical Center's former President Dennis Millirons received more than $1.3 million as part of a severance agreement, according to a WDAY 6 ABC report.
Laval, Quebec, Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals' new CFO Paul S. Herendeen will receive a base salary of $1 million and is eligible for an additional bonus as high as $2.4 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
As the price of EpiPens increased, so too did the salaries of Mylan's executives.