Although health insurer Anthem is suing Express Scripts for approximately $15 billion in hopes of gaining more savings on prescription drug medications, Express Scripts is not giving up, according to the Indiana Business Journal.
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Health insurer Anthem is suing Express Scripts — the nation's largest manager of prescription drug benefits — in an attempt to renegotiate its contract with the company and gain more savings on prescription medicine, according to NPR.
UnitedHealth Group Location: Minnetonka, Minn. Type of company: Payer Meet the organization: UnitedHealth Group operates two distinct platforms: UnitedHealthcare, its health insurance services, and Optum, its information technology-based health services. UnitedHealth Group touts itself as the most diversified healthcare company in the U.S.…
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The majority of people — 68 percent — say compensation is among their top considerations when choosing what kind of career to pursue and where to work, according to Glassdoor.
An employee at WesternStateHospital in Staunton, Va., who routinely failed to show up for one his scheduled shifts was overpaid $71,753 according state auditors, reports The News Tribune.
Ohio hospital CEOs are earning up to $4 million a year, a recent WEWS-TV investigation found.
Amid increasing acrimony over hospital funding in the Connecticut state budget, a legislator has proposed mandating nonprofit hospitals that pay administrators more than $500,000 per year pay municipal property taxes, according to the Greenwich Time.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, the largest health insurer in the state, will no longer offer agents and brokers commissions on individuals health plans, according to the Chicago Tribune.