Monday, September 12th, 2011
IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Doctors, drugmakers and health insurers have spent millions wooing lawmakers who now are on the congressional panel finding a formula to control deficits and debt, analysis finds.
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
As insurance companies try to curb soaring health care costs and unnecessary medical tests, a new Senate report found that some Americans have been wrongly denied tests they needed. It almost cost one father his life. NBC's Lisa Myers reports. (Nightly News)
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
"The compensation of board members at public charities is extraordinarily rare in Massachusetts, and for good reason. As part of our ongoing investigation into director compensation, we had asked the boards of the non-profit health insurers to justify the basis by which they are compensated, and have not been satisfied ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
State regulators shouldn't have sent health insurers a memo on how to handle complaints about autism treatments because it was tantamount to issuing a regulation without it being properly vetted, a judge has ruled.
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