Other competitors in the financial sector include: CIGNA (CI), WellPoint (WLP), and Universal American Corporation (UAM).
Other competitors in the financial sector include: Humana (HUM), WellPoint (WLP), and Aetna (AET).
He also likes HMO WellPoint Health Networks (nyse: WLP - news - people ).
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of WLP, versus UNH and MET.
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Other competitors in the financial sector include: WellPoint (WLP), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), and Universal American (UAM).
UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Wellpoint (WLP) as well as Blue Cross plans linking with ACOS to care for more patients.
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At the closing bell, GGP is down about 1%, while WLP is up about 0.6% on the day Friday.
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Among the major companies offering Medicare Advantage include Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and Wellpoint (WLP).
Try Oxford Health Plans (23, OXHP), Wellpoint Health Networks (85, WLP), Philip Morris (42, MO) and Loews (51, LTR), owner of Lorillard Tobacco.
WellPoint (nyse: WLP - news - people ) will pay for only four weeks of IV antibiotics, citing published peer-reviewed studies.
Only WellPoint (WLP) has been a larger underperformer since November 22.
Among the largest underlying components of IHF, in trading today UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) is down about 0.1%, and Wellpoint Incorporated (WLP) is higher by about 0.6%.
But what if insurers like Wellpoint (nasdaq: WLP - news - people ) or pharmacy-benefit managers such as Express Scripts don't want to listen?
Among the largest underlying components of IHF, in trading today Wellpoint Incorporated ( WLP) is down about 0.7%, and Express Scripts Incorporated ( ESRX) is up by about 0.9%.
Looking at stocks that are oversold and are possibly crossing back above their respective 20-day simple moving averages, are stocks like Pepsi ( PEP), Caterpillar ( CAT), WellPoint ( WLP).
Four of his holdings are currently trading for less than he paid for them: Marvell Technology Group ( MRVL), WellPoint ( WLP), Humana ( HUM) and Genworth Financial ( GNW).
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But McKinnell also realizes that many parties--including insurance companies like WellPoint Health Networks (nyse: WLP - news - people ) and American consumers--are unhappy about rising medical bills.
The most vulnerable according to Perry: UnitedHealth Group (nyse: UNH - news - people ) and WellPoint Health Networks (nyse: WLP - news - people ).
Health plans like Aetna (AET), Wellpoint (WLP), Humana (HUM), and others that have acquired a bigger stake in providing benefits to Medicaid patients will certainly reap millions of new customers.
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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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, WLP makes up 7.21% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund ETF (IHF)which is trading lower by about 0.1% on the day Thursday.
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Among the largest underlying components of IHF, in trading today Express Scripts Incorporated ( NASD: ESRX) is down about 0.4%, Medco Health Solutions Incorporated ( NYSE: MHS) is up about 0.1%, and Wellpoint Incorporated ( NYSE: WLP) is lower by about 0.5%.
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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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And there are also rumblings that health insurer Wellpoint (WLP) may begin to get into the provision of outpatient medical care now that its new chief executive officer, Joseph Swedish, comes from running a large hospital system with scores of outpatient care sites.
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Paul Danao, head of business development for American Imaging Management, part of insurer WellPoint (nyse: WLP - news - people ), says self-referring doctors counter the price cuts by Medicare and private payers by trying to make it up on volume.
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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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.
The departure of Angela Braly at Wellpoint (WLP) is among many exits of health plan CEOs coming as these executives grapple with consolidation and the new order brought on by the Affordable Care Act and demands from their employer clients that they keep a lid on medical costs.
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Many doctors are paid bundled rates by health plans like Humana (HUM), Amerigroup, a subsidiary of Wellpoint (WLP), Aetna (AET) or UnitedHealth Group (UNH) or physicians may be employees and are therefore paid through their clinic, practice or other entity, complicating the rollout of the pay increase.
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