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WellPoint posts 3% profit gain and raises full-year outlook
Insurance giant WellPoint Inc. reported a 3% increase in first-quarter profit and raised its full-year outlook as the company prepares for major changes under the federal healthcare overhaul. WellPoint, which runs Anthem Blue Cross in California and...
Tags: Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Citigroup Incorporated, Earnings Forecasts
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WellPoint's Angela Braly resigns as CEO
Angela Braly, the chief executive of WellPoint Inc., resigned late Tuesday after intense pressure from shareholders who have been unhappy with the company’s performance. WellPoint announced that John Cannon, its general counsel, would temporarily...
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WellPoint To Buy Amerigroup For $4.5 Billion In Medicaid Play
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will buy rival Amerigroup Corp for $4.46 billion in a major bet on the expansion of the U.S. government's Medicaid health plans for the poor. The companies announced the deal on Monday, just a week and a half after the U.S....Tags: Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance, Judges, Molina Healthcare Incorporated, Justice System
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WellPoint CEO Resigns; Shares Rise
The Hartford CourantWellPoint Inc Chief Executive Angela Braly abruptly stepped down from her post on Tuesday following growing investor dissatisfaction with the health insurer's financial performance. WellPoint, the No. 2 U.S. health insurer, is the parent company of...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Insurance, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Corporate Officers, Stock Market
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FACTBOX: U.S. Healthcare Reform Drives Insurance M&As
U.S. health insurers are snapping up rivals as they look to take advantage of a major expansion in the U.S. government's health program. President Barack Obama's healthcare law, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, aims to extend...Tags: Insurance, HealthSpring Inc., Express Scripts Incorporated, Drugs and Medicines, CVS Corp.
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WellPoint shares jump after $4.9B deal for Amerigroup
Investors gave a cheer Monday morning to WellPoint Inc.’s $4.9 billion deal to acquire a Virginia-based Medicaid managed care company. Shares of the Indianapolis-based health insurer shot up more than 5 percent in pre-market trading after WellPoint...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Insurance, Companies and Corporations, Barack Obama, Medicare
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Illinois Medicaid's managed care effort stumbles
It can take years for people with cerebral palsy, autism, schizophrenia or Down syndrome to find trusted physicians to oversee their health. Now, families and advocates say, those medical relationships are being threatened as Illinois rolls out a new...Tags: Cerebral Palsy, Elections, File Sharing, Contracts, Surgery
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Senate bill gains support from local providers
Daily PressA week after the U.S. Senate passed a health-care reform bill on Christmas Eve, health-care providers and consumers are trying to figure out what the proposed reform could mean for them. Health-care providers agree reform is needed, but opinions vary...Tags: Insurance, Congressional Budget Office, Elections, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Career and Workplace
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Major nonretail private employers
Northrop Grumman Newport News 19,000 Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk 14,500 Riverside Health System, NN 5,487 Busch Gardens Williamsburg/ Water Country USA, JCC 5,000 Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, Suffolk 4,000 Bank of America, Norfolk 3,600...Tags: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Social Issues, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Smithfield, Health and Safety at School
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ON THE JOBS
Old Dominion University economists predicted economic growth would slow to 2.6 percent in 2007, falling below the average annual growth rate of 3.4 percent over the past 45 years. However, economic growth, measured in expansion of the region's gross...Tags: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Social Issues, Old Dominion University, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Smithfield
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