Shares of Carmel-based life insurer soared as much as 26 percent, to $6.30 apiece, in morning trading after New York-based
Paulson & Co. agreed to buy $78 million in Conseco stock and $200 million in company bonds.
Hedge fund will control nearly 10 percent of Carmel-based insurer.
Presenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city’s
top minds and decision-makers. Reporter J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ’s Power Breakfast on Sept. 25, covering tort reform,illegal
immigrants, pay models and the role of insurance companies.
Presenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city’s
top decision-makers. J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ’s Power Breakfast, covering tort reform,illegal immigrants, pay models and
insurance companies.
The insurance industry sharply escalated its criticism of the Senate health care bill Sunday, charging that the legislation
would shift costs to privately insured people, raising the price of a typical policy by hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars
annually.
Shares of WellPoint Inc. partially recovered Friday morning after a plunge was touched off Thursday by gathering momentum behind health care reform and talk of a windfall-profit tax by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Demonstrators on Wednesday backed Maine’s insurance superintendent for rejecting a request from the state’s largest private health insurer seeking an 18-percent rate hike for its individual insurance plans.
Most business groups cheered when Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., introduced a health reform bill with no so-called public option,
a controversial government-run insurance plan for working adults. But there’s a big group that would like
to see it back on the table—hospitals.
Health insurer WellPoint said today that it may trim some more jobs as part of a push to become more efficient next year.
Take the money while it’s there. That’s what a handful of insiders at WellPoint Inc. decided in
the past month as they sold off nearly 150,000 company shares for gains of more than $3 million.
If President Barack Obama gets what he wants in his health care plan — covering all Americans and barring insurers from
denying coverage — some analysts say individuals could wind up paying higher premiums.
If Congress implements a new system of health insurance exchanges across the country, Indianapolis benefits broker Joe
Guzman is confident he and his peers would take a hit.
Nine months after being suspended as a contractor for the federal Medicare program, WellPoint Inc. is back in the game.
German group invests in Carmel-based company that specializes in financial services for insurance agencies.
A consumer group says health insurers UnitedHealth and WellPoint pressured their employees to contact members of Congress
and lobby against health care reform proposals that the companies disagreed with.
A health care reform push that aims at the insurance industry misses a much bigger target in its quest to lower rising costs,
WellPoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly said in a speech.
The St. Francis hospital system has finalized a multiyear agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana, ending
a months-long dispute over insurance-reimbursement costs, the parties said yesterday.
Conseco Inc. this morning said it is consolidating three of its insurers into one, a move that will have no impact on employment
but will save the company about $2.5 million annually.
The St. Francis hospital system has reached a tentative contract agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana,
ending a disagreement over insurance reimbursement costs, the parties said today.
Carmel-based Conseco Inc. faces a shareholder lawsuit by a union pension fund over an earnings restatement the company made
18 months ago.
