Investor Place compiled five stocks in insurance companies that were "on the rise" this week.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The Anthem-Cigna merger is making headlines again after Cigna's counsel told the court the insurers' in-house lawyers exchanged letters "accusing each other of breaching the merger agreement," The New York Times reports.
For the last five years, the state of Oregon has had its uninsured population decrease, and its 2016 number is far under the national average, ABC 12 reports.
Despite many payers suffering huge losses on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, California-based Molina Healthcare has fared well financially, according to The Hill.
Successful organizations will reconsider their revenue cycle management methods in a value-based world of healthcare, according to in2itive.
Advertisement
In a webinar, Goldman Sachs managed care analyst Matthew Borsch predicts that Anthem will leave the ACA exchanges in 2018, Bloomberg reports.
As the Anthem-Cigna antitrust case continues, Cigna defended the potential merger saying the $48 billion deal would provide Americans with increased access to affordable healthcare, the Hartford Courant reports.
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found Medicare spending on Mylan's EpiPen drastically increased between 2007 and 2014, according to Yahoo! Finance.
The American Medical Association conducted an analysis that shows two insurance company mega mergers, Anthem's acquisition of Cigna and Aetna's acquisition of Humana, world eliminate competition in insurance markets for 24 states.
This was a big month for CMS as it imposed various changes, including delaying Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act to get providers ready for value-based care.