Your Premiums at Work
It seems that health plans have a little money left after paying all those healthcare costs. The trend of health plans acquiring technology vendors continues. Care management vendor MEDecision is to be acquired by Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. HCSC paid $121 million and will keep MEDecision independent.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and The Regence Group Blue are taking a minority ownership in TriZetto Group, which will be going private. Others include UnitedHealth’s Ingenix , Aetna’s ActiveHealth Management, and Independence Blue Cross’ AllOne Health Management Solutions.
As I’ve written before, payors will be the major players in pushing technology adoption in healthcare, be it provider side with EHRs or consumer side with PHRs.
Posted by Shawn Whalen on June 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM
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