In this case it’s Highmark and UPMC in the Pittsburg area. It’s interesting to listen to the comments in the video and the “deals” are discussed here. They bring up United Healthcare buying up physician’s groups and we have that big in the OC. 
This is really getting tough for patients and again being here in the OC I am hearing a few issues and Blue Shield is suing the part of United that is part of the two big doctor groups. It was just a couple months ago that Blue Cross and Highmark bought NaviNet which is used by several insurance companies so the insurers here have a joint effort. Highmark also handles a lot of Medicare through contracts from CMS.
Blue Cross and Highmark back in 2009 tried to merge with each other which I believe was not allowed as they are both obviously different companies still. I’m glad this is starting to get some national attention as again I see it here in the OC and it’s doing nothing for patients here either. BD
WSJ's Anna Mathews examines a battle being waged between Pittsburgh's UPMC hospital and insurer Highmark over patients and how consolidation in the health-care industry is spurring similar tensions.
don’t update frequently enough too. You just never know when the algos are going to bite. 
done some work in this area with projecting several different outcomes so they can move quickly in whatever direction they need. It is what it is today with intelligence and formulas. One health insurance company United recently hired the former US Assistant Attorney General from Minneapolis as a general counsel so that somewhat signals an area of preparedness on the part of big business here. 
can’t talk to that algorithm and it made decisions and sent out flawed information, matched to the wrong person. If you haven’t figured it out yet, this is why the entire Occupy movement got started as it’s not what you see but it’s rather the intelligence that runs in the background you DON’T see. That’s the problem and issue as we base too much of the economy today on algorithms and making money selling data rather than investing in manufacturing and using more technology there. 
same issues though as what we have used for years and that is being assured of what data you load as it’s still a machine. At the end of 2011 it was also announced that on the west coast that Cedar Sinai was going to explore the system for the same or similar purposes. 
recent award. There’s some history from a couple days ago at the link below. 
public interest. I know it’s sure slowed down a lot with consumers I talk to. 
