Health Net Inc.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System picked four new HMO plans for five-year health insurance contracts starting next year, a blow to incumbent carrier Blue Shield of California. The giant pension fund voted Wednesday to split up Blue...

Blue Shield of California may be losing its longtime grip on one of the healthcare industry's most coveted insurance contracts. Officials at the California Public Employees' Retirement System are recommending breaking up Blue Shield's current...

For the sixth consecutive year, Kaiser Permanente ranked highest in customer satisfaction for health insurance among California policyholders, according to ratings firm J.D. Power and Associates. Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest for-profit...

Nonprofit healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente had a 40% share of California's $59-billion health insurance market for employers and individuals, new data show. A report issued this week by Citigroup analyst Carl McDonald compiled nationwide data on...

U.S. health insurers are snapping up rivals as they look to take advantage of a major expansion in the U.S. government's health program. President Barack Obama's healthcare law, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, aims to extend...

A Martinsburg man was killed and two others were injured Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 81 south of Martinsburg, the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office said. Leopold Richards, 62, was pronounced dead at City Hospital in...

*This piece originally ran on A1 on Tuesday, October 21, 2008* Jennifer and Greg Danylyshyn of Pasadena are conscientious parents. They keep proper car seats in their used BMW, organic vegetables in the family diet and the pediatrician's number by the...

Is the LAPD off the map? Re "LAPD to build data on Muslim areas," Nov. 10 I realize that "anti-terrorism" is all the rage now in government-expansion circles, but will someone please explain to me why the L.A. Police Department is involved in anti-...

Unless you've been rushed to the hospital in an emergency, the time to start thinking about paying the bill for hospital care comes as soon as your doctor says you need to have a test, procedure or surgery. "What patients have to pay hospitals is not set...

At the height of the recession last year, Deanna Ross was busy training the newly unemployed and others how to form support groups to cope with mental illness in these stressful times. Then Ross lost her own job as a regional field worker at the National...

EmblemHealth Inc. is still a bidder in Health Net's ongoing negotiations for a possible sale of its Northeast operations, though Aetna may not be, sources familiar with the situation say. Also, Health Net is having trouble getting the price it wanted for...