Aetna to Pay For Program To Manage Depression

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Aetna Inc., one of the country's largest insurance companies, will improve their employee health care benefits, by offering to pay for a depression management program. Depressed employees are less productive and absent from work more often, costing the American economy about $83 billion a year.

Wage Administration, Personnel administration, Productivity Improvement, Psychological aspects, Health aspects, Care and treatment, Economic aspects, Compensation and benefits, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Compensation management, Aetna Inc., Workers, AET, Labor productivity, Labour productivity

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WellPoint's Blue Period May Be Over

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Wellpoint Inc., has acquired 30 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in the last thirty years, making it the largest health insurance company in the United States. Wellpoint's most recent acquisition, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, raised stock prices to $75.51.

Acquisitions & mergers, Securities issued, listed, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Company acquisition/merger, Securities, Company securities, Industrial concentration, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, WellPoint Inc., ATH

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Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins And E-Mail Me in the Morning

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Health plans such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield have started paying physicians for e-mail consultations, as both patients and doctors find them efficient in certain situations and they are cost-effective.

Management dynamics, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Management, Medicine, Practice, Physicians, Company business management, Medical practice, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, E-commerce

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