Hello? It’s I, Robot, And Have I Got An Insurance Plan For You!

“Anna” will not stop calling. She really, really wants to sell you health insurance. What a lot of consumers really, really want is to smack Anna upside her robocalling head.

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Billions In Questionable Medi-Cal Payments

California’s Medicaid program made at least $4 billion in questionable payments to health insurers and medical providers over a four-year period because as many as 453,000 people were ineligible for the public benefits, according to a state audit released Tuesday.

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Congressional Report Says Insulin Market Benefits Drugmakers and Insurers, Not Patients

“Perverse” incentives in the insulin supply chain lead to artificially high prices, as well as limited competition in the markets, according to a bipartisan report released Thursday by two lawmakers.

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Cigna Boosts 2018 Forecast After Third Quarter Earnings Beat

U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp (CI.N), which is in the process of acquiring Express Scripts Holding Co (ESRX.O), significantly bumped up its 2018 adjusted profit forecast, and its shares rose more than 3 percent on Thursday.

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Healthcare Waste is Costing Billions – and Clients Aren’t Doing Anything About It

Providing the workforce with healthcare coverage is expensive, but a new survey of 126 employers suggests a large chunk of that cost is being wasted by the healthcare industry on treatments patients don’t need.

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8 Results We’re Watching on Election Day with big Healthcare Implications

Healthcare has been a central theme of the 2018 election, arguably more so than any other election in recent history. 

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