they can also leads to higher profits for the insurance companies, as health care services are delayed, never get delivered, or are not paid for by the insurer even if they are provided by the physician.
Discusses the effect of good first-half underwriting results on the pace of health insurance premium increases. Concerns about national health reform; Improved earnings; Role of health care infla...
Third, the government can permit or even require insurers to spend a share of the excess profits on these urgent public health needs. Insurance companies are in the unique institutional and financial situation to fill essential gaps in the pandemic response. Doing so would further the stated missi...
However, health insurance companies are seeing earnings rise. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare and the largest private health insurer in the U.S., announced a sharp uptick in its second quarter earnings, more than $1.5 billion than the same quarter from the previous ye...
big health argues, doctors or hospitals are paid for each service they provide, encouraging them to perform as many as possible and charge as much as they can. If doctors and insurance companies are part of the same business, by contrast, incentives should be aligned and overall costs should...
COVID-19 has significantly impacted both the health & well-being of the population and the economies of the world. For U.S. health insurance companies, the repercussions of the virus became evident late in the first quarter, thus making the pandemic’s effect on financial and enrollment result...
As economic stagnation exerted downward pressure on company profits and a new corporate cost-consciousness developed, employers began to shift more of the insurance burden to their employees. Likewise, insurance companies were battling new economic and regulatory forces; skyrocketing inflation , ...
There was a silver lining to the coronavirus crisis for insurance companies: not having to pay for elective procedures during lockdown saved them a ton of money. As such, profits went through the roof. This creates an interesting conundrum for insurance carriers. Due to the way the ACA is ...
She said capital-intensive companies spend more of their total compensation on health insurance, possibly because they have higher proportions of high-skill, high-wage workers who expect better insurance and other benefits. It's also possible that high equipment costs and other such expenditures simpl...
第一篇:奥巴马演讲 Premiums,Profits,and the Need for Health Reform The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue Cross. The news inside was jaw-dropping. Anthem was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be rais...