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.
UnumProvident Takes New Approach With Fall Campaign
By Staff WriterUnumProvident Corp. is preparing to roll out new print and Web ads that will focus on benefits services and products other than disability insurance.[@@]UnumProvident, ...
August 09, 2005
Garden State Gubernatorial Campaign Involves Insurer MoneyInsurer political contributions have surfaced as an issue in the New Jersey governor's race, with Democrats attacking Republican standard-bearer Douglas Forrester for use of ...
August 08, 2005
HMO Earnings StabilizeProfit growth at U.S. health maintenance organizations slowed to the low double digits in 2004.[@@]Total profits for all 515 U.S. HMOs increased to $11.4 ...
August 08, 2005
More Workers Reject Health CoverageEmployers offered health insurance to a higher percentage of workers in 2002 than in 1997, but fewer of the workers who were offered coverage ...
August 05, 2005
CBO: Employers Overcame Health Costs During 2001-2003 RecoveryU.S. employers may have held down wages from 2001 to 2003 to compensate for the increases in health coverage costs that took place during ...
August 04, 2005
Conseco Reports Lower Sales But Higher ProfitsConseco Inc. squeezed more profits out of the business it managed to keep and acquire during the second quarter.[@@]Conseco, Carmel, Ind., is reporting $88 ...
August 04, 2005
Long-Lived Disability Claimants Pinch Assurant Benefits ResultsHealth insurance loss ratios fell but long-term disability insurance loss ratios rose at Assurant Inc. during the second quarter.[@@]Assurant, New York, is reporting $128 ...
August 04, 2005
Highmark Introduces Medicare Managed Care PlanHighmark Blue Shield now is offering a new Medicare managed care plan to residents of 10 Pennsylvania counties.[@@]The plan, the FreedomBlue plan, is available ...