UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Wellpoint (WLP) as well as Blue Cross plans linking with ACOS to care for more patients.
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UnitedHealth Group (UNH) as well as Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients through their employers.
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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.
Therefore, Blue Cross plans like Excellus are expected to be critical to the choices of uninsured Americans and small employers looking for affordable health benefits not only in upstate New York but across the country.
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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.
United, Aetna and several Blue Cross plans also offer their patients the right to appeal against denials of care to an independent panel (though the value of this is reduced by the fact that 30 states require independent panels by law).
ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
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ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
In markets where they operate, Blue Cross plans tend to be the market leaders in offering coverage to individuals and small businesses, which are expected to be the predominant purchasers of benefits on exchanges created under the health law that 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.
ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring under an initiative that is part of the Affordable Care Act and now most private insurers like UnitedHealth, Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
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Across the country, Blue Cross plans are often leaders in their markets in the provision of individual benefits as well as small group plans for small and medium-sized businesses as they compete with the likes of UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET) and Humana (HUM) for these new customers.
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The Affordable Care Act brings sweeping changes to the health insurance industry with most large plans like Wellpoint and their family of Blue Cross plans competing to provide quality and price-competitive benefit plans on state-regulated exchanges to offer benefits to millions of uninsured Americans when subsidies for individuals and small businesses kick in in 2014.
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The biggest names in health insurance like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI), Wellpoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the country are contracting with ACOs.
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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.
For decades, the number of independently operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans has fallen through consolidation to compete with rivals like Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH) that have grown commercial business largely through acquisition.
Some Blues plans like Blue Cross of California, amid financial problems, became for-profit and took to the public markets in the 1990s, creating today what is known as Wellpoint (WLP), which operates plans under the Blues or Anthem Blue Cross brands in more than a dozen states.
They have their benefits provided by large and medium-sized employers and administered by health plans that include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
The report mentioned most health insurers, including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI), Humana (HUM), Wellpoint (WLP) and an array of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans contributing to what the AMA described as significant market concentration.
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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.
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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In Florida, for example, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has discussed and negotiated partnerships with other Blues plans and continues to do so, according to various reports.
He previously served as Medicare Part B director for Aetna, administering Medicare plans in nine states, and was with Blue Cross and Blue Shield before that.
The Blue Cross was considering closing it until a public outcry made it abandon those plans in 2010.
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