Tis spring, the season in the US for legal settlements, government findings, and proxy statements revealing executive compensation. There...
Showing posts with label managed care organizations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label managed care organizations. Show all posts
UnitedHealth CEO Continues to Prosper While His Company's Behavior Appears to Contradict its Mission Statement
Tis spring, the season in the US for legal settlements, government findings, and proxy statements revealing executive compensation. There...
Don't Cry for Me, Brazil - UnitedHealth May Buy Brazilian Managed Care Company
While Health Care Renewal 's bloggers are at the moment all Americans, and hence tend to focus on the wild and crazy US health care syst...
Logical Fallacies in Support of Payments for Board Members of Non-Profit Health Insurers
The kerfuffle over the huge golden parachute given the departing CEO of an ostensibly non-profit Massachusetts health insurer/ managed care ...
Wendell Potter on "Insurers’ Cynical Calculations on the Cost of Doing Business"
On his blog , Wendell Potter, former head of public relations for CIGNA, discussed big health insurance/ managed care organizations' att...
How Large Health Care Organizations Set the "Rules of the Game" to Dominate Health Care
The notion that health care is increasingly "dominated by large, bureaucratic organizations which do not honor ... [its] core values...
"Government-Run Health Insurance" Run by Corporations? - Two Medicaid Examples
In the US, there seems to have been a constant argument between right- and left-wingers over "government-run" health insurance. T...
Passport to ... Fraud? - AmeriHealth Mercy Settles
Back in November, 2010, we discussed the relatively opulent pay and perks given to and conflicts of interest affecting leaders of Passport ...
Health Insurers Sanctioned, Fined
It has not been a good few weeks for big US health insurance companies. First was a report (e.g., per the Wall Street Journal) that three ...
"Living High Life on Money to Treat the Poor"
Here is another story that has developed over the last week about questionable goings on at a not-for-profit health care organization. The ...
Wellcare Settles Again, but Wait, There is More...
We posted several times, most recently in 2009 ( here and here ), about misbehavior by the health insurance company/ managed care organizat...
Board Member Blows Whistle on Health Insurance Company's Accounting
We previously posted about some of the travails of for-profit health insurance company/ managed care organization Wellcare. In August, 2009...
Pay for Hypocrisy for Health Insurance Executives
A few weeks ago, we discussed the cognitive dissonance produced by huge salary boosts for top executives of health care companies with mise...
