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.
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By Staff WriterAssurant Employee Benefits is trying to do its part to warn workers about the damage that illness or injury could do to their incomes.The benefits ...
September 21, 2006
WellPoint Unit Updates Rescission RulesBlue Cross of California says it will change the way it challenges what it believes to be the questionable coverage applications submitted by some policyholders ...
September 21, 2006
Feds Hold Down FEHBP ClaimsA low medical loss ratio has helped the plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program hold the average 2007 premium increase to 1.8%.Premiums will ...
September 21, 2006
Policyholders Sue Over Rate Increase TimingLawyers are trying to organize a class-action lawsuit against a Maryland health carrier in connection with the way the carrier has handled policyholders' birthday anniversaries.The ...
September 21, 2006
Feds Hold Down FEHBP ClaimsA low medical loss ratio has helped the plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program hold the average 2007 premium increase to 1.8%.Premiums will ...
September 20, 2006
Riding The Crest Of ChangeVoluntary employee benefits are developing into a distinct market of their own, shaped by employers' need to be creative in recruiting and retaining workers while holding down costs...
September 19, 2006
Employers Pan Universal Health Care And Mandate CurbsBenefits buyers say the federal government should require health care providers to publish cost and quality information - and insurers to publish actual discounted health ...
September 19, 2006
Supplemental Products Appeal To Women, Young BoomersWomen and workers in their 40s seem to be especially likely to buy supplemental disability and critical illness insurance.Researchers at UnumProvident Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., have ...