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.
Plan Administrator: Keep Pension, Health Data Rules the Same
By Allison BellThe U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes.
September 22, 2011
Deals: MD Care, De la Parte, Triton HRHumana Inc. has agreed to acquire a small Medicare Advantage health maintenance organization in Southern California.
September 22, 2011
Obama Administration Downsizes CLASS Act OfficeThe Obama administration is reassigning the workers in the office that was developing the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act long term care benefits plan.
September 22, 2011
Retirement Planning: Another Use for Disability InsuranceDisability insurance has proven to be a flexible product over the years.
September 22, 2011
The Emergency Survival Plan for Health Insurance Specialists: Part IIThis is the second in a series of four articles outlining a seven-step "Emergency Survival Plan" you can deploy in your health insurance practice.
September 22, 2011
Health Care Law’s LTC Plan Appears Endangered by CLASS Act’s Potential DemiseThe Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday denied a rumor that the office administering the LTC portion of the health reform law was being shut for good.
September 21, 2011
Medicaid Planning Critic Goes to Capitol HillStephen Moses, a man who has spent years fighting the rules that let relatively affluent people qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits, got a chance today to explain his position to members of Congress.
September 21, 2011
AHIMA: ICD-10 Shift Creaks to LifeU.S. health care providers are at least starting to think about planning for a move to the ICD-10-CM diagnostic coding system.