Long-Term Care Planning
Long-term care insurance news and analysis, including coverage of short-term care insurance, long-term care hybrid products, and other arrangements for paying for long-term and post-acute care.
How to target the high-net-worth client
By Daniel WilliamsWhat is the biggest roadblock you have to locking in high-net-worth clients? Contributing Senior Market Advisor writer Ed McCarthy is researching a story on that topic for a feature story in an upcoming issue of SMA.
October 12, 2010
Use of Adult Day Services Centers Are on the RiseThe number of adult day services centers has increased 35% in the United States since 2002, a report from the MetLife Mature Market Institute reported Tuesday.
October 11, 2010
PPACA: EBSA Tries to Ease Employer FearsThe Employee Benefits Security Administration has come down on the side of health plan sponsors in several newly posted answers to questions about the Affordable Care Act.
October 11, 2010
PPACA: EBSA Tries to Ease Employer FearsThe Employee Benefits Security Administration has come down on the side of health plan sponsors in several newly posted answers to questions about the Affordable Care Act.
October 07, 2010
Harvard Pilgrim leaves Medicare Advantage marketHarvard Pilgrim Health Care will be discontinuing its Medicare Advantage program, known as First Seniority Freedom, at the end of the year, leaving 22,000 seniors in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire to seek coverage elsewhere.
October 07, 2010
Harvard Pilgrim leaves Medicare Advantage marketHarvard Pilgrim Health Care will be discontinuing its Medicare Advantage program, known as First Seniority Freedom, at the end of the year, leaving 22,000 seniors in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire to seek coverage elsewhere.
October 05, 2010
White House Ponders GOP Repeal GoalsRepublicans who try to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Act will face questions about the consequences, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
October 04, 2010
AARP: LTC Provided Primarily by Family MembersSeniors are increasingly relying on technology and family care for their long-term care needs.