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.
Employer Fleibility Can Keep Boomers Working, Study Finds
By Allison BellIn the early 1900s, insurance companies and their agents organized a massive effort to protect Americans from tuberculosis.Today, some executives in the insurance industry ...
July 06, 2005
What Managing Underwriters Can Offer ReinsurersMany reinsurers continue to use brokers to sell reinsurance to health maintenance organizations and stop-loss coverage to employers.That can be a good way to ...
July 06, 2005
Survey Finds Support For Universal Child Health CoverageL28childAB.xml Child--go page xx, with --95 lines. Graphic: upon requestA majority of conservative Republican voters polled recently told a survey team that the federal ...
July 06, 2005
UnitedHealth Group To Buy PacifiCare In Cash-Stock DealUnitedHealth Group Inc. has agreed to pay $8.1 billion in cash and stock for PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.[@@]UnitedHealth says it hopes to complete the ...
July 06, 2005
New York Commissioner Slams SpitzerThe office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may reevaluate its relationship with New York Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills as a result of ...
July 05, 2005
GAMA Project To Focus On MarketingThe GAMA Foundation has hired LIMRA International to help it study the marketing strategies of successful insurance agencies and distribution firms.[@@]Researchers at LIMRA, Windsor, ...
July 05, 2005
Pennsylvania Carrier Helps Members Fight Chronic ConditionsIndependence Blue Cross is introducing a program that will manage care for members with complicated chronic diseases.[@@]Independence Blue, Philadelphia, has picked Accordant Health Services, ...
July 05, 2005
Incentive Pay Program Boosts Cervical Cancer Screening RateThe Integrated Healthcare Association says a "pay for performance" system in California seems to be having a noticeable effect on the quality of patient ...