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27 min ago | Medical News

UnitedHealth Group invests $5.4M in The Help Group's tax-exempt revenue bonds

The Help Group received $5,395,000 in capital that will support development of its newest campus serving Los Angeles-area children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders.

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Related Topix: Insurance, California, California Government

Wed Dec 09, 2009

WFAT-FM Portage

HMO stocks slip amid concern over new regulations

Shares of U.S. health insurers lost initial gains on Wednesday as new proposed regulations that are part of efforts to overhaul the health system overshadowed momentum from the decline of a government-run insurance plan.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Financial Markets, Wellpoint Health Networks, Insurance, Medicare, Health, Aetna

TheStreet.com

Public Option Death Gives Life to Healthcare Stocks

The reported death of the public option in the congressional healthcare overhaul breathed life into healthcare stocks on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Day Trading, Personal Finance, Insurance, Health Net, Aetna, Business News

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Workforce Online

Judge Gives Preliminary OK on Ingenix Settlement

A federal judge in New York has granted preliminary approval to a $350 million settlement agreement ending a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group brought by the American Medical Association and other plaintiffs involving UnitedHealth subsidiary Ingenix.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking, Investment Services

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Star Tribune

Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions involving Minnesota companies that were announced in the past week.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Oxfordshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Minnetonka, MN, China, Asia

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Medical News

U.S. Court grants preliminary approval of $350M settlement in lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group

The American Medical Association announced today that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted preliminary approval of the previously disclosed $350 million settlement that would resolve a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Syracuse University, Health

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Star Tribune

UnitedHealth lawsuit settlement advances

UnitedHealth Group Inc., giant insurer based in Minnetonka, received a judge's preliminary approval of a $350 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Beverages, Pepsi Bottling Group, PepsiCo

Washington Times

EXCLUSIVE: Top Interior official gets $2M bonus

When members of Congress decided in November to start investigating the recipients of seven-figure pay packages in the health insurance industry, they may not have expected to find themselves probing a top Obama administration official.

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Related Topix: US News, Insurance, Health Insurance, Health, Tom Harkin, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat

Wed Dec 02, 2009

The Motley Fool

One Healthy Partnership

Health insurer Humana and CVS Caremark 's MinuteClinic are expanding their relationship, in what looks like a healthy deal for both sides.

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Related Topix: Humana, Insurance

Tue Dec 01, 2009

TwinCities.com

Regional Report / UnitedHealth expects to lose fewer members next year

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the top U.S. insurer by sales, said it expects to lose as many as 1 million members in its commercial health care plans next year, an improvement over 2009.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Beverages, 9, Minneapolis Metro, Auctions, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Wind Power

Business Insurance

UnitedHealth touts model amid reform flux

UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday told investors it has built a business model to adapt to changes in the health care system, even as it anticipates a difficult 2010.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Beverages, Healthcare Law, Law

Mon Nov 30, 2009

TheStreet.com

'Mad Money Lightning Round': Pick Up Some Gold Fields

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Monday evening.

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Related Topix: Mad Money, Entertainment, Television, Mining, Gold Fields, Financial Markets, Insurance, TheStreetcom, Media, Computers

Fox News

UnitedHealth Group Affirms Forecast

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Monday that it will affirm its previous forecast for 2009 net earnings of about $3.15 a share during its annual investor conference in New York on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Beverages, New York Metro, Business News

Sun Nov 29, 2009

The Motley Fool

3 Stocks Springing Back

With all the volatility in the markets today, there's no shortage of market seers attempting to call a bottom.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Sunrise Senior Living, Wellpoint Health Networks, Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Motley Fool

Who's Paying for Health-Care Reform?

Health-care reform isn't going to be cheap. Ensuring coverage of 94% of eligible Americans will cost a trillion dollars over the next decade, give or take a few billion depending on which chamber the bill is coming out of.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Insurance, Humana, Aetna

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Providence Journal

Insurer executive: Costs out of control

The nation's health-care system is broken, but congressional proposals to fix it do not focus enough on controlling spiraling costs, according to the president of one of the nation's largest health insurers.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Providence Metro, Providence, RI, Healthcare Law, Law

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Moved Permanently

Kentucky one of most obese states

Only nine states are less healthy than Kentucky, according to the 2009 edition of Americaa s Health Rankings, an annual report published by the United Health Foundation, the nonprofit arm of health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Beverages, Insurance

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Star Tribune

Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions involving Minnesota companies that were announced in the past week.

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Related Topix: Minneapolis Metro, Insurance, Beverages

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Bloomberg.com

Lipitor, Vytorin Prove No Better Than Generic at Cutting Hospital Visits

Cholesterol pills Vytorin from Merck & Co. and Lipitor from Pfizer Inc. worked no better than simvastatin, a cheaper generic medicine, at keeping patients out of the hospital for heart attacks or stroke, a study found.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Lipitor, Atorvastatin (generic), Medication, Cholesterol, Health, Pfizer, Biotech, Merck , Healthcare Industry, Zocor, Simvastatin (generic), Insurance

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Star Tribune

Marshall Tanick: UnitedHealth's directive

UnitedHealth Group , the nation's largest insurer, recently rankled many when the Minnetonka-based company implored its 75,000 employees to send letters to senators and newspapers, with copies to the insurer's lobbying arm, opposing a public insurance option in the proposed federal health care legislation as well as payment cuts to Medicare ...

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Related Topix: Insurance, Minnetonka, MN, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Opinion

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