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.
More Health Plans Cover Contraceptives
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, June 15, 2004, 1:33 p.m. EDT -- Most U.S. group health plans now cover a full range of prescription contraceptives.[@@]Researchers ...
June 14, 2004
Workers More Resistant To Health Benefits Cost ShiftingNU Online News Service, June 14, 2004, 4:29 p.m. EDT -- Workers are skeptical about employer efforts to promote health care consumerism.[@@]When researchers hired ...
June 14, 2004
PacifiCare Wins Harvard Pilgrim Behavioral ContractNU Online News Service, June 14, 2004, 3:43 p.m. EDT -- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Wellesley, Mass., has picked a unit of PacifiCare Health ...
June 14, 2004
AIG Backs Insurance Paper Award ProgramNU Online News Service, June 14, 2004, 1:43 p.m. EDT -- Nonprofit education groups have formed a program to support practical research on current ...
June 11, 2004
Regulator Questions Anthem-WellPoint DealNU Online News Service, June 11, 2004, 6:08 p.m. EDT -- California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has asked California lawmakers for more legislative authority ...
June 11, 2004
California Blue Offers Brokers Web Sales ToolNU Online News Service, June 11, 2004, 1:49 p.m. EDT -- Blue Cross of California is offering agents a Web-based health insurance sales system.[@@]California ...
June 11, 2004
Calif. Opens Health Program To Higher-Income KidsNU Online News Service, June 11, 2004, 3:03 p.m. EDT -- Federal officials have approved a plan to open California's Children's Health Insurance Program ...
June 10, 2004
URAC Forms Consumer-Directed Plan Standards PanelNU Online News Service, June 10, 2004, 5:27 p.m. EDT -- URAC, Washington, has set up a committee that is developing quality standards for ...