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WellPoint deal lets health plan create national HIE
Health plan giant WellPoint announced today that it was striking a deal with health plan portal Availity to create what it's describing as a "multi-payer portal," or HIE. WellPoint is making an... Read more...
GA Blue plan sends benefit letters to wrong addresses
Last week, Georgia's largest health insurer concluded that it sent about 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses, courtesy of a systems error. Blue... Read more...
Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform
A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: WellPoint offers cellphone-accessible provider directory
Wondering if your patients will benefit from mobile services? Maybe you'll want to follow WellPoint's lead. The insurer has rolled out a new provider directory for its beneficiaries designed... Read more...
WellPoint data may have been compromised
While it's not clear what happened, it looks as though clinical and personal data on 130,000-odd WellPoint beneficiaries may have been accessed through the web. WellPoint has announced that during... Read more...
