That’s about the size of it as today you have to look at the massive IT sides of business and if you don’t give that some thought, well you might be living under a rock as that’s pretty much what banks and insurance companies are today, huge software companie…
Continue ReadingRemember a while back when Walgreen moves their employees over to a private insurance exchange? Well there’s more to this exchange that what meets the eye here. Aon has hundreds of data scientists as an insurance broker so these folks from Walgreens, well y…
You read the title correctly as United adds yet one more subsidiary to their almost 400 subsidiary companies. This is indeed marketing that will get more insureed inside one of their networks and of course they are competing with the other insurers as well. …
This is yet another expansion of the Medicare Advantage Killer Algorithms as the insurer business intelligence methodologies used are designating that these are additional areas that are having an impact on over all profit strategies. This is a process that …
This breach/attack affects Premera Blue Cross, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska, Vivacity and Connexion Insurance Solutions. Connexion is interesting as it’s also a private insurance exchange that sells health insurance. Connexion wants developers …
So we are all watching to see how insurance merger mania goes and here’s the next after Centene bought Health Net a couple days ago. In the Medicare Advantage market Aetna is the distant third behind United and Humana so with purchasing the #2 Medicare Advan…
We all know by now that a card or coupon is just one more way to track what you do and insurers these days can’t get enough relevant and non relevant data to analyze. For insurers, it works well to have these globs of data that they may not know what th…
Here we go again, the Big Brother push and of course could all these “motion” scores be combined and queried with medical claims and other information on hand at United? Sure they could and we now would have an entire new bunch of risk assessment scores to A…
The MIB has been around for a long time and now according to their website you will only have an MIB file to access if you have applied for any type of insurance coverage in the last 7 years. Now that doesn’t mean they purged the files necessarily as they go…
Here’s yet one more low income housing investment from United Healthcare. This time it’s in Boston to build low income apartments. Below are links to three other projects I have posted. Each investment has been a little different and you can almost bet you…
It sounds like the NHS has some of the same issues we have in the US, a lot of “Dupers” that have no clue on how data mechanics logic works from reading this article. You have to realize today that an insurance company is not just one function, they do a lot…