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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Health insurer WellPoint Inc. plans to improve primary care reimbursement and start paying for care management it doesn't currently cover, changes that could give patients more quality time with their doctors....

NEW PAYMENT PLAN: Insurer WellPoint Inc. plans to boost primary care reimbursement and start paying for care management it doesn't currently cover to improve quality and save money....

Summary Box: WellPoint to revamp primary care pay Associated Press

Insurer WellPoint to revamp primary care pay Associated Press

The cybernetic miracle shamans are at it again:

IBM's Watson set to tackle health insurance, takes 'Diagnosis for $1,000'
via Engadget by Billy Steele on 9/12/11

It is two days after the US Thanksgiving holiday, and one thing I am thankful for is the continued hilarity generated by health care corporate CEOs who pretend to be health care experts.  Of course this all really is not so funny, because the bogus expertise appears not in MAD Magazine, but in the most respected media outlets with the most influence over health care policy.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- WellPoint Inc. said Wednesday its third-quarter profit inched up 1 percent, as the insurer saw gains from a reduction in the use of health care and leftover claims that came in lower than expected....

WellPoint, the largest US for-profit health care insurance company, has provided a steady stream of examples of poor management and bad behavior for the edification of Health Care Renewal readers.  Most recently, a company whose core functions include reliably and confidentially managing electronic data on policy-holders allowed what should have been private data from nearly half a million people to appear on-line (see post here.  For other examples, look

A report by Bloomberg on a prediction that the US attempt at health care reform will lead to more concentration of power among health insurance companies.

U.S. health insurers are 'moving towards an oligopoly,' a process that this year’s health-care overhaul will accelerate, the investor-relations chief at WellPoint Inc. said today.

In a letter to the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation and CIGNA HealthCare Inc., U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on the executives to publicly justify proposed health insurance premium increases.