Other big buys last week for our gurus included health insurer Aetna and insurance company HCC Insurance Holdings.
In late 2004, executives at Aetna, the insurance company, started an experiment.
Aetna, an old Connecticut insurance firm, was trying to shift from low-growth financial services into the booming managed-care business.
Other insurance services include a Costco personal health insurance program through Aetna which is now available in nine states (Connecticut, Nevada, Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas).
Insurance heads like Aetna CEO Ronald Williams and Cigna CEO David Cordani, government honchos like Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf, and thought leaders like Grameen Health founder Muhammad Yunus were among the thousands in attendance.
If seniors like having their Medicare benefits managed by a private insurance company like Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM) and others, then why is a voucher system such a bad idea?
Health insurance companies like Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and Humana (HUM) are paying more so-called bundled payments to doctor practices, rewarding them if they work together to keep patients healthy and out of the more expensive hospital setting.
Smart health insurance providers such as Aetna are aggressively reinventing themselves.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
Among the handful of insurance companies offering HSAs and associated high-deductible insurance policies are Principal, Aetna, Golden Rule and Humana.
The Crofts like health insurance providers UnitedHealth Group and Aetna.
In contrast, Bertolini has stated that increasingly Aetna views itself as a healthIT company with an insurance component.
The September issue of the noted health policy journal profiles medical care providers working with the Medicare program and health insurance companies like Wellpoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET) to provide doctors with payment incentives to get their patients more coordinated medical care.
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Insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and Blue Cross plans having been aggressively moving to contract with medical-care providers through ACOs.
The move comes as major health insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) and Humana (HUM) increasingly profile doctors and link physician pay to performance.
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In addition, most private health insurance companies, too, such as those operated by Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI), Humana (HUM) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) as well as Blue Cross plans linking with ACOS to care for more patients.
In January 2014, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans will be providing subsidized coverage to individuals and small businesses via state or federally-regulated exchanges established under the health law.
Most major health insurance companies that sell individual and small group policies such as Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna (CI) and others are planning to offer health plans on the exchanges, which will be operational in January of 2014.
Most major health insurance companies that sell individual and small group policies such as Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are planning to offer health plans on the exchanges, which will be operational in January of 2014.
Medicare and private health plans like WellPoint, UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna were unable to keep a lid on spending, and health insurance premiums rose at about the same 6% rate.
Aetna is also very exposed to the difficulties of Medicare, America's federal health-insurance scheme for the elderly.
Aetna, which employs more than 48, 000 people, is the largest provider of health insurance in the United States.
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The database includes large and midsize employers with more than 1, 000 workers and in some cases, tens of thousands of workers who have their health plans administered by the biggest names in health insurance including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) as well as Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the country.
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Already, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET) and most Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are making bundled payments to groups of doctors and hospitals.
Talented employees want to work for companies that offer health plans: Buying health insurance on their own in the open market is usually far more expensive because UnitedHealth Group, Aetna and other big insurers prefer to spread their risks underwriting large groups.
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