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Surge of new customers boosts Anthem’s profit

Anthem’s third-quarter profit rose nearly 4 percent as it added 174,000 health plan members. Its Medicaid, local employer and national employer segments all grew, although its individual business saw losses.

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Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for most part-timers

Starting Jan. 1, Wal-Mart will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move, which would affect 30,000 employees, follows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others.

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New tiered network trips up IU Health, UnitedHealthcare talks

In spite of offers to strike a short-term extension, UnitedHealthcare and Indiana University Health are still hung up in contract negotiations on one key point: Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare wants to create a multi-tiered network of providers and services that would offer the lowest co-pays and deductibles for favored hospital systems—which IU Health is not.

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Docs court employers with health management

Three years ago, the physician practice American Health Network was concerned that the boom in employer on-site clinics would hurt its business. So it launched a program aimed at managing the health of employers’ workers. And it has come up with some impressive results.

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Study: Indiana individual health-claim costs to rise

A study by the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts shows the biggest driver of health insurance premiums will rise by more than 67 percent for Indiana residents' individual policies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

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