As stated in the title here, profits continue to rise on fewer members and this is nothing new as it has been happening all over with insurance carriers making record profits, helped along with their analytical algorithms to score and perhaps cherry pick who they want to cover. Like other carriers...
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Algorithms still the hottest trend in healthcare and the steering wheel that controls all. Here’s the press release below. Is this too little and too late? Risk management has been running healthcare for a very long time as the private insurers have been the up front runners with investing...
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Lawmakers are going to have a difficult time with this one as they are not technically up to date enough as a whole to comprehend how all of this works in my estimation. with understanding the algorithms of finance and the economy, Wall Street showed us that. Sad, but it is true and this...
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