This is part 2 of Jeff Goldsmith’s history of managed care. If you missed it read Part 1 By JEFF GOLDSMITH The late 1990s crash of HMOs opened the door to a major consolidation of the health insurance market controlled largely by national and super-regional health plans. While HMOs by no means disappeared post-backlash, the…
Sara Ratner is President of integrated Programs at Nomi Health. They work with employers and health plans to connect them to a network of providers (both telehealth and physical) who accept steep discounts in return for immediate payment. The employees in turn get no co-pay/no coinsurance. In addition they have an analytics company called Artemis…
A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the killing of a senior Russian general in Moscow. Though the person was not identified by name, the suspect is a male citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan who was born in 1995, according to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. He is…
I’m not thrilled that Donald Trump has renewed his attack on the “corrupt media.” Fresh off his $15-million victory over ABC and George Stephanopoulos, Trump yesterday sued the Des Moines Register and gold-standard pollster Ann Selzer over a bad survey. She projected him losing by 4 points, and he won the state by 13 points….
The league’s second in-season tourney brought out fierce competition and authentic emotions, unlike the NBA All-Star Game. That’s all Adam Silver wanted.
A Virginia man was killed when a bear shot out of a tree by one of his hunting partners fell on him, according to state wildlife officials. The incident happened on Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, according to a statement from Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources. A hunting group had been tracking the bear…
A video clip that recorded the assassination of Igor Kirillov, a high-ranking general, gives a few clues about the power and the placement of the explosive device.
The suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, confessed to planting the bomb that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov in Moscow, a spokeswoman for Russian prosecutors said.
A mass shooting near a funeral home in Baltimore County, Maryland, left one person dead and nine others injured Tuesday night, county officials said. Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said officers responded to reports of shots fired on Loch Raven Boulevard at around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The scene was near Johnson Funeral Home…
