Viewpoint: Yes, HMOs and insurance providers have the right to require the substitution of generic drugs for name-brand drugs, as generic drugs have been scientifically proven as safe and effective. Viewpoint: No, HMOs and insurance providers do not...

The early Health Maintenance Organizations, like the Kaiser-Permanente Foundation, were based on a certain assumptions. They thought that if cost barriers were removed, people would use much more preventive medicine and thus lower health care costs....

A health maintenance organization (HMO) is a type of managed care organization (MCO) that provides a form of health care coverage in the United States that is fulfilled through hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which the HMO has a contract....

Health Maintenance Organizations Ranked by number of members in Arkansas. Arkansas premiums and company assets in millions. HMO Members/ Address, Phone No. of Hospitals 1. HMO Partners Inc. d/b/a Health 177,141 Advantage 26 Corporate Hill, Little Rock, 92 72205-4538 (501-221-1800) 2. United Healthcare...

When health maintenance organizations (HMOs) were invented two decades ago, the prime objectives were to extend health care coverage to more people and hold down costs. In many ways, the plan has worked reasonably well. Lately, however, some health care experts have begun...

Health care costs could rise more than 10 percent in 2007, unless companies change their plans, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. "What the insurers are projecting is double-digit increases if you don't do anything," said Michael Thompson, a principal...

The American Medical Association on Monday asked the Department of Justice to block UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s proposed purchase of Sierra Health Services Inc., saying the deal would be anticompetitive.The AMA estimates that if the merger was completed, UnitedHealth would control 78 percent of the health...