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		<title>UnitedHealthOne/Golden Rule no longer processing payments until the application is approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning with applications received on March 24, 2011, the processing of credit card or EFT payment will not take place until the application is approved and issued. This is a great change from the previous method of processing payment at the time of submission, regardless if the application is approved or not. This change in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Healthcare Enters Agreement to Take Over Principal Financial Group Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Principal Financial gets out of group health market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Principal Financial Group Inc. is getting out of the medical insurance and self-insured plan administration businesses, and it has arranged for UnitedHealth Group Inc. to handle renewals.]]></description>
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		<title>UnitedHealthcare Puts Its Physician, Facility Network on an iPhone Application</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UnitedHealthcare is helping improve access to health care by putting its vast network of doctors, clinics, hospitals and other health care services on a new app just introduced on Apple’s iPhone. The new DocGPS App for Apple Inc.’s popular mobile device enables users to tailor their search to their specific health plan and locate nearby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UnitedHealth Group Settles Class Action Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (January 15, 2009) – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) announced today that it has reached an agreement to settle class action litigation related to reimbursement for out-of-network medical services. The agreement resolves class action litigation filed on behalf of the American Medical Association (AMA), health plan members, health care providers and state medical societies. Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Building Grassroots Support For Health Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; When Shirley Hunter reviewed her finances to make sure she could afford to retire in 1999, she never banked on health care costs more than doubling in less than a decade. Now the 74-year-old former California kindergarten teacher finds herself under financial pressure. Despite taking lodgers to help pay the bills, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AARP gets a cut of Medicare policies it endorses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Laupus joined AARP because he thought the nonprofit senior-citizen-advocacy group would make his retirement years easier. He signed up for an auto insurance policy endorsed by AARP, believing the advertising that said he would save money. He didn&#8217;t. When Laupus, 71, compared his car insurance rate with a dozen other companies, he found he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Healthcare Report Shows Success of Health Savings Accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of UnitedHealthcare customers with Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are depositing money into the accounts and accumulating balances, regardless of their income level, age or employer size. UnitedHealthcare analyzed more than 200,000 of its 1.4 million members enrolled in an HSA-eligible health plan during the full year 2006 – the latest period for which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UnitedHealth profit drops 72% on legal settlement charge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryno442</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; UnitedHealth Group Inc on Tuesday reported a 72 percent drop in quarterly profit on a big charge from a legal settlement and challenges in its businesses serving seniors and employers, although its results surpassed previously lowered expectations. The largest U.S. health insurer by market value said second-quarter net earnings fell to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Moves To Limit Costs In Drug Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.ilhealthagents.com/blog/carriers/humana/medicare-moves-to-limit-costs-in-drug-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryno442</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare is trying to curb an opaque industry practice that inflates what some older and disabled people pay for medicines under the federal insurance program&#8217;s prescription-drug plan. Medicare Part D, introduced in 2006 to extend drug coverage to beneficiaries, is provided through private health-insurance companies. Many insurers in turn contract with so-called pharmacy-benefit managers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Lawmakers Block Medicare Bill Reducing Insurers&#8217; Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A $20 billion Medicare refinancing bill, paid for mostly by reducing Medicare's reimbursement of private health plans, was blocked by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, raising the likelihood a version with smaller cuts will emerge.

Health insurers such as <a href="http://www.ilhealthagents.com/Humana.html">Humana Inc</a> and <a href="http://www.ilhealthagents.com/unitedhealthone/main.html">UnitedHealth Group</a> would face billions in cuts in two competing versions of the legislation that lawmakers are debating this week.

The legislators face a ticking clock]]></description>
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