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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Healthcare Policies, Heritage Foundation, Small Businesses, Health Insurance Cost, Justice System
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U.S. stocks end higher despite negative news much of year
Despite all the cliff drama in the past week that sent stocks spiraling downward, all three major U.S. stock indices ended the year higher — which might come as a surprise to many investors
U.S. stocks rallied Monday in the last hours of trading...Tags: Media Industry, U.S. Congress, Finance, Financial Markets, Vocus Incorporated
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Insurer to pay $3 million to avoid prosecution in Medicare case
A Bethesda-based insurance company that gained advantage over competitors by allowing its employees to inappropriately access a federal Medicare database has agreed to pay the federal government $3 million to avoid criminal prosecution, according to the...Tags: Medicare, Justice System, Government Health Care, Health Insurance, Prosecution
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$5.6B deal positions Aetna for changing health care market
Aetna's plans announced Monday to acquire Coventry Health Care Inc. for $5.6 billion could catapult the insurance giant to the front of an industry race to capitalize on Obamacare and the health needs of aging baby boomers. The deal, subject to...
Tags: Healthcare Policies, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Corporate Officers, Finance, Health Insurance
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One Baltimore company on Fortune 500 list — for last time
Baltimore made the newest Fortune 500 list by the skin of its teeth — with a company that was based here last year but is now part of an out-of-state concern.
Constellation Energy Group, which merged with Chicago-based Exelon Corp. in March, is No....Tags: Baltimore Hotels, Fort Meade (military base), Montgomery County (Maryland), Johns Hopkins University, Business Enterprises
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Lost 'Fortune'
Walk the streets of downtown Baltimore, and you might feel the presence of its corporate ghosts. On Gay Street, perhaps you'll meet Alexander Brown, the Irish immigrant who started the nation's first investment firm here more than 200 years ago.
Head...Tags: History, University of Baltimore, Stanley Black, Ed Hale, Corporate Officers
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Redmer lays HMO cost rise to Democrats
Sun StaffRebuffing partisan calls for his resignation, state Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer Jr. defended yesterday his handling of requests from insurers to pass on a recently approved 2 percent HMO tax to consumers, saying he is following the procedure...Tags: Private Health Care, Justice System, Paula C Hollinger, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Republican Party
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Salary comparisons difficult to make for CareFirst's chief
Sun StaffCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a nonprofit - except that it pays taxes unlike a charity, competes with for-profit insurers, tried to convert to a for-profit itself and is currently promoting its charitable efforts to stave off critics. Got that? If...Tags: Corporate Officers, Finance, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Charity, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Once-hot stock option programs losing some luster
Sun StaffIt wasn't so long ago that stock options were the equivalent of corporate America's lottery. That still may the case be for a handful of Maryland executives. Among those who got mega-grants last year, Coventry Health Care Inc. CEO Dale B. Wolf...Tags: Corporate Officers, CEO Pay, Auto Trends, Stock Options, Ciena Corporation
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CEOs find that pay is now tied to results
Sun StaffAt first glance, Nolan D. Archibald might seem like a perfect example for critics of runaway executive pay. The chief executive of Black & Decker Corp. pulled in a base salary of nearly $1.5 million and a bonus of $3 million last year while...Tags: Peter Kennedy, Corporate Officers, CEO Pay, Auto Trends, Earnings
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