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.
Hub Jumps Into Mini Med Market
By Staff WriterA large commercial insurance brokerage firm has started to sell limited-benefit health plans.The brokerage firm, Hub International Ltd., Chicago, has launched the CoverEdge program, which ...
January 10, 2006
Reinsurer Backs LTC InsurerMunich American Reassurance Company has agreed to reinsure an individual long term care insurance product sold by MedAmerica Insurance Company.MedAmerica, Pittsburgh, says the reinsurance arrangement ...
January 10, 2006
Health Cost Increase Outstrips Out-Of-Pocket IncreaseU.S. spending on private health insurance premiums rose 8.6% in 2004, to $658 billion.Economists with the National Health Statistics Group at the Centers for Medicare ...
January 10, 2006
Alabama Ponders Licensing ReformAlabama legislators are reintroducing a bill that would extend the licensing period for the state's insurance professionals.The bill, currently unnumbered, would lengthen the renewal period ...
January 09, 2006
Fiserv Acquires CareGainA financial services administration company has scooped up one of the pioneers in the personal health account administration system market.The buyer, Fiserv Inc., Brookfield, Wis., ...
January 09, 2006
Great-West Signs ValueOptions NetworkA company that runs health plans for many large, self-insured employers is beefing up its behavioral health program.The company, Great-West Healthcare, a unit of Great-West ...
January 08, 2006
NAIC Releases Top 5 SalariesThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, Mo., released salaries for its five highest-paid executives in 2005.--Catherine J. Weatherford, executive vice president and CEO, ...
January 08, 2006
Turn Medicare Advantage Into Sales AdvantageSince the first Medicare HMOs were made available in the 1970s, private health plans have bounced in and out of the market. The last great ...