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.
Tech Bits: TriZetto, Novell
By Staff WriterTriZetto Group Inc. is getting ready to introduce a system that can help health insurers and other payers tailor benefits and incentives to suit the needs of individual plan participants.
November 20, 2009
House Takes Back Medicare Provider Rate CutMembers of the U.S. House of Representatives have voted 243-183 for H.R. 3962, a bill that would repeal a 21% Medicare physician fee reduction that is set to take effect in January 2010.
November 20, 2009
Tech Bits: TriZetto, NovellTriZetto Group Inc. is getting ready to introduce a system that can help health insurers and other payers tailor benefits and incentives to suit the needs of individual plan participants.
November 20, 2009
Take A Needs-Based Approach To Boost EnrollmentsConsumer confusion about insurance is quite real. Employers and their employees have difficulty understanding insurance products.
November 20, 2009
Senate Health Bill: Lincoln, Landrieu Boost Effort To Move Ahead With DebateMembers of the Senate have started debating whether they ought to debate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bill, and Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu now say they favor letting the bill come up for discussion.
November 19, 2009
Senate Health Bill: Antitrust Lurks In The WingsDrafters left health insurer antitrust repeal out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bill, but a repeal amendment probably will surface when the bill reaches the Senate floor.
November 19, 2009
Industry Groups: The Reid Bill Won't WorkInsurance carrier and producer groups say they believe the Senate's new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bill would backfire, by making health care and private health coverage even harder to afford than they are today.
November 19, 2009
Reid Lugs Out Senate Health BillThe main Senate health bill -- the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- has arrived.