UPMC on track to acquire Altoona hospital system
Emerges as preferred partner over Geisinger Health System and Highmark Inc.
State lawmakers decide health care standoff
Lawmakers want the state’s largest health insurer, Highmark Inc., and largest hospital network, UPMC, to negotiate on a contract that is soon set to expire.
Highmark Inc. gains $1 billion-plus debt with merger
Highmark officials work through the $1 billion-plus debt that comes with the West Penn Allegheny Health System merger.
Merger between Highmark and Allegheny Health System, struggling
Even as Highmark Inc. and West Penn Allegheny Health System talk about starting a new relationship, their old disputes continue to play out before the Supreme Court, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Staying with UPMC doctors will cost Highmark users
In less than a year, clients of Highmark Inc. health care plans who use physicians affilliated with UPMC Health System probably will have a choice to make, reports the Beaver County Times.
Insurer Highmark Inc. may become a provider
Highmark Inc. is contemplating taking over West Penn Allegheny Health System, changing the regional health care landscape.
Nurse practitioners now recognized as primary care providers by Highmark Inc.
In PA, some nurse practitioners are now considered as primary care providers, a title that was once only given to physicians.
Highmark is suing the PA Dept. of Insurance
The health insurance company says the department plans to use illegal obtained information in a public document, among other charges.
Highmark opens health insurance stores
The health insurance retail stores are the first of their kind in PA.
Lack of competition doomed Blues merger
If Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. had agreed to let another “Blue” company sell health insurance in the Philadelphia market to provide competition, their proposed merger probably would have been approved, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario said yesterday.