Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Disability Bits: Securian, Colonial Life, CDS
By Staff WriterSallie Mae Inc. has hired Securian Financial Group to administer claims for a new "total and permanent disability" provision that will come with Sallie Mae private education loans.
March 08, 2010
EBSA Official: 403(b) Plan Product Not Really An AnnuityAn Employee Benefits Security Administration official wants employers to stop treating a retirement plan investment product as an annuity.
March 08, 2010
Health Bits: Aetna, Humana, OthersPennsylvania has awarded a Medicaid managed care contract for a 5-county region to a unit of Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET)
March 08, 2010
Survey: Health Insurance, Access To Care Not Closely LinkedA new survey challenges the long-held assumption that having health insurance is synonymous with having access to health care.
March 08, 2010
Quiz question: Older age underwritingIn older age underwriting, why do underwriters run cognitive tests on clients?
March 08, 2010
Alliances: AIMS, Partners Advantage, Phillips Benefits, LifeCareAmerican Insurance Marketing Services, Inc. is forming an alliance that should help it expand the scope of the services it offers to associations.
March 08, 2010
Sebelius To Health Carriers: Explain Your RatesObama administration officials are asking 5 large insurers to publicly disclose their reasons for imposing large rate increases on some customers.
March 08, 2010
Guaranty Companies Oppose Senate Financial Reform BillGuaranty fund trade groups are urging members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Committee to leave insurers out of any bill that would create a separate resolution authority for large, troubled financial institutions.