The State of New Jersey has awarded Unisys a contract extension that continues the company’s role as the state’s Medicaid fiscal agent and Medicaid Management Information System provider. In this role, Unisys is responsible for efficiently providing service for more than a million enrolled recipients and processing more than $7 billion in annual benefit payments.
The [...]

Healthcare expenses continue to climb each year. To help payer/TPA customers control health costs for their self-funded employer group clients, Benefit Informatics has partnered with HealthMedia, the leading behavior change intervention provider. HealthMedia’s web-based solutions in the areas of wellness, disease management, behavioral health, and medication adherence are now a component of the Personal Health [...]

Controlling spiraling healthcare costs begins at the individual level. Benefit Informatics has created the Personal Health and Cost Management (PHCM) desktop solution to provide payer customers with a web-based, private-labeled environment that can be customized with health, wellness, behavior change and predictive modeling solutions for each employer group and each employee or plan participant.
The program [...]

Zila, Inc. announced that Essex Dental Benefits has begun offering coverage for ViziLite® Plus with TBlue®, Zila’s proprietary screening device for the early detection of oral abnormalities that could lead to cancer.
“Wellness screenings, such as oral cancer examinations, have been shown to help improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs,” said Ziad Rubaie, executive vice [...]

NovoLogix(SM) has announced the launch of an ongoing series of symposia that will explore creative, forward-thinking ideas and strategies for managing the changing healthcare landscape. The first in this series, entitled Innovations in Healthcare Technology: Managing Medical Pharmacy, will convene Wednesday evening, October 29, at the recently opened W Minneapolis — The Foshay and run [...]

Radian Group Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Tax Benefit Preservation Plan designed to protect stockholder value by preserving important tax assets. The Tax Benefit Plan was adopted to reduce the likelihood that Radian’s use of its net operating losses, loss carryforwards and other tax assets (NOLs) would be substantially limited [...]

Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. has entered into a definitive purchase agreement through a wholly owned subsidiary to acquire substantially all the assets of Pegasus Biologics, Inc., a privately held medical device company based in Irvine, Calif., focused on the development of advanced biological solutions for soft tissue repair. The purchase price is $12.1 million in [...]

UnitedHealthcare by AmeriChoice has been selected by Mississippi’s State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board to be the state’s partner in its Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
When the new policy begins in January 2010, UnitedHealthcare will be the exclusive health plan for approximately 65,000 children throughout Mississippi who are enrolled in CHIP.
“Particularly in these [...]

Connolly Healthcare, a permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has signed a five-year license agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines.
Connolly will use the Care Guidelines content and software to review Medicare claims in 15 states — West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, [...]

Kaplan Compliance Solutions a leading provider of services and technology solutions for the insurance and securities industries, introduced a new Cost/Benefit Analysis Tool designed to identify areas of compliance risk and unnecessary costs for insurance and securities organizations.
Kaplan Compliance Solutions recently completed a cost/benefit analysis for a large insurance company and found that the company [...]