Towers Watson has struck a deal with US based Medicare insurer Extend Health to acquire the firm for about$435m in cash,less net debt and certain transaction costs. The acquirer said that it anticipates the acquisition will be dilutive to ...
MiMedx Group has reported positive results from a study of its EpiFix, a dehydrated human amniotic membrane allograft, designed as a treatment for diabetic neurovascular foot ulcers. The controlled, randomized trial, which enrolled 80 ...
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WholesaleInsurance.net, a provider of online life insurance quotes, has entered into teaming agreement with Trusted Quote, in an effort to improve its customer service. As part of the strategic agreement, TrustedQuote.com will offer a ...
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Health insurer Independence Blue Cross (IBC) has expanded its relationship with Inovalon (the new name of MedAssurant). Under the expanded partnership, the health insurer will implement Inovalon's Star Advantage and INDICES solutions to ...
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Essence Healthcare, a health insurance provider has named Richard Jones as president and chief executive officer, with a plan to streamline its operations in Medicare advantage health segment. Jones will succeed Frank Ingari, who is ...
Flexible Benefit Service Corporation (Flex) will unveil a private health insurance exchange (PHIX) InsureXSolutions, helping uninsured businesses with the ability to offer employees access to health care. Suitable for any size business ...
US based Flexible Benefit Service has unveiled the InsureXSolutions private health insurance exchange, designed to allow employers to offer employee benefits and provides an online platform to employees for selecting insurance plans as per ...
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Cigna (CI) has signed an agreement to purchase selected Medicare Advantage plans in Texas and Arkansas from health insurer Humana. The acquisition of three Humana's markets including Amarillo, Longview-Marshall and Texarkana will allow ...
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MagnaCare has introduced MagnaCare Advisors (MCA) and an expanded portfolio of customized insurance options, especially for network physicians, members and clients of the MagnaCare Network. According to the firm, its advisors will offer ...
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Bankers Life and Casualty has launched a new life and health insurance product, Critical Benefit to provide additional financial protection associated with treatment and recovery as well as cover non-medical expenses. The critical illness ...
Medica has appointed John Naylor as senior vice president for commercial markets to enhance the business segment, effective from 19 November 2012. Naylor will take over the new role from Simeon Schindelman, who has been appointed as chief ...
Humana has named Mark El-Tawil as the division leader for Humana medicare division in the west region, which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada. The company has assigned him to manage its medicare HMO and PPO health ...
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WellPoint and Amerigroup have inked a definitive agreement in accordance with which the first will acquire Amerigroup, which will enable the acquirer to effectively and efficiently serve the growing Medicaid population. WellPoint expects ...
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Great American Insurance Group has promoted trucking executive Darrell Bickley to divisional vice president of its Trucking Division. Since joining the Trucking Division in 2004, Bickley served in various positions of increasing ...
Towers Watson has acquired Extend Health, which operates the largest private Medicare exchange in the US. The firm said that the deal will enable it to offer employers with health care solutions that combine specialized retiree medical ...
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