A day after New York’s attorney general took aim at UnitedHealth Group’s health-care reimbursement procedures, the ultimate financial implications for the nation’s largest insurer were yet to come into focus.
But there is little doubt that Andrew Cuomo’s probe has handed company executives a significant distraction and a bit of a black eye.
Although some analysts believe […]
Led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a phalanx of interests charged Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth and its Ingenix division with denying millions of dollars in claims for millions of Americans when they use doctors outside of their insurer’s network.
Cuomo said Wednesday that he plans to sue UnitedHealth, launch an industrywide investigation into billing procedures and […]
Health care remains a top voter concern. Here’s some help on candidates’ stated positions:
Q Will all Americans be covered by health insurance?
Clinton: Yes. Huckabee, McCain, Obama: No.
Clinton would mandate that all individuals have health insurance. She has not specified how this would be enforced. Obama proposes a stepped approach starting with a mandate to cover […]
ST. CLOUD - Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave Minnesota a sloppy Valentine on Wednesday, telling a hand-picked audience at the St. Cloud Civic Center that we have an unstoppable forward momentum toward greatness.
Greatness was the message of his State of the State Address — delivered to a small audience of invited big shots (and 75 empty […]
MUNCIE, Ind.
- It’s almost noon, almost time for what drew Carey Youngblood and his pals to the abandoned General Motors plant. Hands tucked deep in dirty jeans pockets, the factory men stomp their feet to stay warm as the countdown begins.(Ten … Nine …)Youngblood, a stocky 47-year-old […]
WASHINGTON
- It’s a Herculean task: revamping a financial regulatory system dating back to the Civil War to deal with 21st century crises imperiling the country.Under an ambitious Bush administration plan, the Federal Reserve would take on the unwieldy role of uber cop in charge of financial market […]
EAGLE, Idaho
- What they didn’t know before moving to Idaho could fill a house, and in many ways it does.The kitchen table holds stacks of legal papers. Medication bottles litter a nearby countertop. The two-story home Robert Ryan, 42, shares with his partner, Ralph Martinelli, 53, overlooks […]
For more than 20 years, Richard Espeseth deftly operated huge steelmaking machines. But he never mastered the computer keyboard.
Now the 60-year-old wonders if that gap in his skill set is keeping him from his next manufacturing job. Downsized out of a job at Northstar Steel in 2002 and again at Great Western Recycling in 2007, […]
The number of Minnesotans infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) rose again in 2007 — as it has each year since 1996.
More than 17,000 people became infected with one of the big three — chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis — an increase of 3.8 percent over 2006.
Health experts say this intractable epidemic is rooted […]
The assertion by Mark Dayton (This time, let’s be fair about the budget gap, March 24) that the richest people in Minnesota don’t pay their fair share of taxes is without merit.
It’s not his fault. Dayton cites a study that attempts to allocate all state taxes (franchise, property, excise, personal sales and corporate sales taxes) […]