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GLG Topic: Health Insurance

Health Insurance is a type of coverage in which an insurance company pays all or part of an individual's medical costs in case of illness or accident. The medical costs may include doctor visits, hospital stays, surgery, procedures, tests, prescription drugs, home care, and other treatments and services. The various types of health insurance include individual plans, group health plans, workers' compensation, and government health plans such as Medicare and Medicaid.

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Leading Experts: Health Insurance

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David Zimmerman, PharmD
President/Owner
Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc.

David Zimmerman, PharmD, FASCP, is the President and an Independent Consultant of Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc. Dr. Zimmerman formerly served as the Director of Clinical Affairs at Employee Health Insurance Management, a pharmacy benefit manager. He has over 30 years of experience, specializing in pharmacy...

Bilyana Savic
President
Insurance Insights

Bilyana Savic is the President of Insurance Insights. She is a consultant to insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms, specializing in the health insurance product categories of major medical, life, long term care, Medicare supplement, disability, accident and specified disease, but also with...

Robert Dondes
Independent Consultant
Robert Dondes, Consultant

Robert Dondes is an Independent Consultant based in the mid-Atlantic United States, with headquarters in Maryland. His private practice focuses on managed care, health insurance, strategic analysis, and operational improvement. Mr. Dondes is affiliated with the consulting division of the Pennsylvania...

Anthony Cancela
President
CANCELA INSURANCE BROKERAGE, LLC

Anthony Cancela, RHU, RFC, is the President of Cancela Insurance Brokerage, LLC in New Jersey. The organization has been providing insurance brokerage service to clients for over 14 years in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Cancela has expertise in the Health Insurance market and provides...

Gary Bennett
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Max New York Life

Gary Bennett is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Max New York Life in India. Previously, he was President & CEO of New York Life Insurance Worldwide. An Asia life insurance veteran, before joining New York Life he was Managing Director, North Asia of Prudential Corporation Asia, PCA...

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GLG NewsSM Analysis: Health Insurance(?)

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Losses Loom in Pensulvania if Poltics Guides Health Insurance Absent | 04-09-2008
Analysis of: House OKs Limits on Health Insurance | www.post-gazette.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Pennsylvania is a bell weather for hospital reporting in the US.  The "hospital costing containment council" (I forget the name) is famous for highlighting percentage of patients acquiring hospital infections after arrival.  Accountability for these very high costs lay with people managing...

Implementing Cost Controls Over Runaway Health Benefit Expenses | 04-10-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Health care expenses are rising at an alarming rate.  From 2000 until 2006, the inflation rate for medical care in the United States increased nearly 35%.  And even worse, health insurance premiums rose 78% during the same period.  At the same time, wages were up only 20%. Most employers...

The Detroit Two-Step; Doublespeak About Delphi To Give GM Purchasing More Time To Save GM, Not Delphi, From Certain Disaster | 04-07-2008
Analysis of: Why no one wants Delphi | www.247wallst.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC

Delphi is on life-support with no health insurance, and General Motors wants the world to think that it is offering to pay some of Delphi's bills out of the goodness of its corporate heart, and for old times sake.  The truth is that the sheer and massive incompetence of GM purchasing management has...

Ranking Doctors and Hospitals | 05-08-2008
Analysis of: Physician report card validity | physiciansnews.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Ranking doctors and hospitals will certainly move the most profitable patients able to afford commercial health insurance AND travel.  Medical Providers who help set their (local) standards to affect real outcomes reporting regular consumers can understand will increase their market share. ...

Waste not Want not: Will this Ever Apply to U.S. Healthcare? | 04-28-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

For the first time a major comprehensive authoritative national study (by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP) has concluded that over one half of the nation's $2.2 trillion in annual health spending (fully $1.2 trillion) is wasted.  Other studies have put this percentage in the 25 to 40% range. ...

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