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LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) health plan members start earning rewards for their efforts to live healthier lives through the launch of HumanaVitality – a wellness and loyalty program that features a wide range of well-being tools and rewards from leading reward-partners. A key element of the program is a sophisticated health-behavior-change [...]
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CHAPEL HILL – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is establishing a new network of specialty pharmacies to help customers better manage their complex, chronic health conditions and to address the rising costs of these prescription medications. These network changes will not affect customers’ prescription drug benefits in any way and customers [...]
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Pittsburgh, Pa. — Highmark Inc. and the West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) today announced their intentions to pursue an affiliation aimed at maintaining the health system as a high-quality choice for health care services to millions of Western Pennsylvanians. As part of the initial arrangement, Highmark is immediately providing a $50 million grant to the [...]
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CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – Jun 25, 2011) – Do group health insurance plans provide the best coverage? From the looks of a GoHealth infographic, that might not always be the case. GoHealthInsurance.com is unveiling an infographic to show data from the Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services revealing the percentage of group plans [...]
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BOSTON & ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HighRoads, the industry leader in employer health care regulation compliance, and the Corporate Executive Board (NYSE: EXBD) (CEB), a leading research and advisory services company, today announced the results of their first joint study on health care benefits plan design data. The combined study from The Lab®, HighRoads’ real-time employer benefits database, shows [...]
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Charleston, S.C. – May 18, 2011 – Benefitfocus, the industry leader in healthcare and benefits technology, today announced that it has opened the BENEFITFOCUS® Platform to select third party developers. Benefitfocus announced the availability of the Benefitfocus API, ad hoc reporting and third party apps at this morning’s keynote address at One Place, the company’s premier event [...]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Millions of Humana members will now find it easier to compare the cost of prescription drugs and explore available alternatives. Humana has updated its industry-leading MyHumana Mobile app and mobile website to include prescription drug pricing. The Drug Pricing feature allows members to quickly determine the cost of their prescriptions, identify lower-cost alternatives and [...]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a national leader in health care coverage, and The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. (RDA), parent company of Reader’s Digest – one of America’s best known and trusted brands – today announced a new alliance focused on enhancing seniors’ health and well-being. As part of this alliance, [...]
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Medical Mutual of Ohio, the oldest and largest Ohio-based health insurance company, has partnered with Linkwell Health, a fast-growing developer of innovative health and wellness engagement and loyalty programs, to make it easier for its members to live healthier lives. Linkwell Health provides Medical Mutual with quarterly high value wellness offers and simple-to-follow guidance to [...]
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new set of packages from Priority Health gives schools the opportunity to save thousands on their health care costs. PriorityEDUSM enables school districts to save up to $2,000 per teacher in annual costs. One option provides guaranteed, predictable pricing for three years, which will help districts with long-term budget planning. “It’s [...]
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