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$120 Million Dollar Pacificare Dividend Payment to Parent Company United Healthcare Blocked by CA Insurance Commissioner-Subsidiary Watch

Back in September California regulators were digging around and were looking to fine United Healthcare subsidiary Pacificare $10 billion in fines, based on data found in audits. We all know that getting a judgment and collecting are 2 different issues...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 2:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, HMO, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, algorithms fraud, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, rebranding, subsidiaryies

California Regulators Seeking up to 10 Billion in Fines Against United HealthCare With Over 1 Million Violations After The Purchase of Pacificare HMO

This is a large number of violations stacked up here by the State, 992,936 with a fine of 10k for each violation. This could stand to be the largest fine in US history against a health insurance company. United Health Group is appealing the...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, HMO, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, algorithms fraud, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, rebranding, subsidiaryies

Health Insurance Companies Continue to Push Plans to Limit Selection of Providers and Hospitals – Return of the HMO Concept And Out of Network Short Pay With New Algorithmic Pay Schedules

How many more new plan offerings can we sift through? As soon as the payment algorithms and business models change, we have new plans and this is a cycle that doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon, so as consumers, even with the help of HHS and the...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2010 1:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HMO, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, algorithms fraud, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, rebranding, subsidiaryies

Prescription Solutions Launches Clinical Vantage(SM) – Algorithmic Software Web Client Settings For Risk Management and Cost Control

I believe I am reading this correctly but if you are a member of a company, HMO or otherwise that utilizes the services of Prescription Solutions, this new format will allow the employer (or who ever is the client) to set and establish parameters in which...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2010 4:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Prescriptions, HMO, Business Intelligence, Medications, Doctors, Patients, Algorithms, United HealthCare, websites, employer, Prescription Solutions, Clinical Vantage

Employers in Orange County Looking for New HMO Contracts as St. Josephs and Others Begin Cancelling Agreements with Pacificare (UnitedHeatlhCare) – Capitation Contracts

It has been a few years since United Healthcare purchased Pacificare, thus the name still exists and in some areas consumers have already been shifted to new types of policies. This conflict with St. Joseph has been ongoing for quite some time. ...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2010 6:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HMO, Tenet, Orange County, United HealthCare, Contracts, branding, PacifiCare, capitation, St. Josephs Hospitals, Hoag, rebranding

United HealthCare Rebranding PacifiCare Name – Moving Patients to United Plans

It has been 4 years and the process is finally taking place with the rebranding after the purchase of PacifiCare by United. As this article reads it appears that patients need to re-apply to select a plan from United HealthCare they feel would best...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2009 2:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HMO, United HealthCare, branding, PacifiCare

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