UnitedHealth Group The mostly jobless economic recovery has been hard on health insurers that grow by adding employees to their rolls. Now it's prompting a wave of consolidation. In late April, jus...
UnitedHealth is at it again, this time gobbling up Oxford Health Plans just two months after it completed a merger with Mid Atlantic Medical Services.
Earnings from two Dow components, a health insurance merger and a look at consumer confidence figures for April could move the markets Tuesday.
Microsoft Corp. may fuel more gains for technology shares and the Dow Jones industrials average on Friday as the software maker reported late Thursday higher quarterly revenue on strength in the personal computer sector.
This fall, the annual ritual of picking a health plan will be more challenging than ever. Set aside, for a moment, people's heightened sense of financial vulnerability since September's attacks on ...
A few years back, Bill Lerach scoffed at the idea that his powerful enemies might ever put him out of business. "We're like snakes," he declared. "You cut us in half, and we'll still wiggle."
However you rate the companies of the 500--by growth, return, or market cap--computers and telecoms dominate. All these performers lack is size. On average, the ten companies with the highest retur...
People don't need an excuse to bash HMOs. Not only have they transformed a simple doctor's visit into a bureaucratic nightmare, but their stocks have blown up as frequently as battle droids in The ...
Pat Adams had a problem. As manager of the $117 million Berger Select fund, he'd watched shares of two big holdings--Sunbeam and Cendant--collapse last year after it became known that both companie...
Money Magazine: How Healthy Is Your HMO?updated: Mon Mar 01 1999 00:01:00
Your managed-care provider may be due for a checkup. "HMOs are operating in a seriously deteriorating business environment, and most are now losing money on their operations," says Martin Weiss, ch...
What does HMO stand for? Surf the Internet, and you'll come up with a litany of choices: Half Minute Over. High-class Muggers Outfit. Healthy Members Only. Or our favorite--Hurry Mothers Out.
If Oxford Health Plans is your insurer, you may well be wondering if the firm's well-publicized financial woes of the past year will have a trickle-down effect on your health-care coverage. It's a ...
Don't try to catch a falling knife. That's the Wall Street truism about the dangers of buying declining stocks before they've hit bottom. A perfect example is Oxford Health Plans, which plummeted f...
Many of the 29 million American women at high risk for breast cancer who want to take the drug tamoxifen will have to wait at least six months for their health plans to approve such treatment.
Actuarial tables. Alan Greenspan's EKG. Chicago Hope. You might describe these as boring. But to apply that adjective to the sudden disintegration of hundreds of millions of dollars of market value...
Hear it? That high-pitched whine in the background of the business news? Hasn't been this loud since the late '80s, but you can't miss it now--and I'm convinced it's only going to get louder. It's ...
If you were asked to identify the major U.S. companies best positioned for success, you'd probably list Microsoft, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, GE, and the like. Ask yourself th...
The Manhattan office of acupuncturist and herbalist Phyllis Bloom is serene by the standards of the medical profession. The fragrance of soothing oils and the faint sounds of Chinese music fill the...
Want to be sent L.L. Bean catalogues that peddle only fly-fishing gear? You got it. Need Federal Express to bill you electronically every Thursday? No problem. Like your Levi's custom-made? Coming ...
For the past three years, mutual funds specializing in growth stocks have lagged behind those that favor undervalued shares, rising just 10% annually, vs. 11.4% on average. Reason: Gains in cyclica...
Many Wall Street pros say that small investors seeking today's best buys should look at mutual funds that specialize in midcap stocks, the medium-size firms (generally, total market values between ...
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