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.
New York Carrier Adds Medigap Plans
By Staff WriterEmpire Blue Cross Blue Shield has started selling Medicare supplemental insurance plans C and F in the New York area.[@@]Empire, New York, says Plan ...
November 02, 2005
Worksite Firm Chooses Eldorado SystemWorksiteRx L.L.C. has decided to use the Healthpac system from Eldorado Computing Inc. to administer health benefit plans.[@@]WorksiteRx, Tifton, Ga., a benefit plan administrator, ...
November 02, 2005
Garamendi Pans PacifiCare Deal Eecutive Comp PackageThe top California insurance regulator already is attacking one element of efforts by UnitedHealth Group Inc. to scoop up PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.[@@]California Insurance ...
November 02, 2005
Swiss Res Deputy CEO: GE Deal Good For Many ReasonsFollowing Swiss Re's announcement of its $6.8 billion planned acquisition of GE Insurance Solutions from General Electric Company, Swiss Re's deputy CEO, Jacques Aigrain, ...
November 02, 2005
Trying To Connect Boomers With Critical Illness InsuranceCould critical illness insurance be as useful to baby boomer executives and professionals as it is to the blue-collar workers on the shop floor?Advisors ...
November 01, 2005
Small Health Insurers Turn To Western CarrierAmerican Republic Insurance Company and World Insurance Company have picked Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company to supply a provider network and manage patient ...
November 01, 2005
CIGNA Epands HSA Access In 8 MarketsA national health carrier is marketing high-deductible plans to more midsize Midwestern and East Coast employers.[@@]The carrier, CIGNA HealthCare, has started selling health savings ...
November 01, 2005
Bank Insurance Income Up in First HalfTotal insurance revenues of bank holding companies in the first half rose 1.6% to $21.2 billion from $20.9 billion in the same period in ...