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.
Partnership Smartnership: How (and Why) to Avoid Partnership LTCI
By Honey LeveenI'll be blunt: I don't understand advisors' continued glorification of Partnership LTCI plans.
July 28, 2011
Schlesinger Takes Lead at NAHUMel Schlesinger has succeeded Steve Selinsky as president of the National Association of Health Underwriters.
July 28, 2011
Witness Blasts PPACA Menu Board MandateA fast food restaurant executive reports that a calorie disclosure provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may force his company to spend $1.5 million on replacing menu boards.
July 28, 2011
Magellan Helps Create Behavioral Health Medical HomeA unit of Magellan Health Services Inc. is part of a team setting up "integrated health homes" for Iowa residents with serious mental illness.
July 28, 2011
GAO: SSA Struggling to Recover Disability OverpaymentsAdministrators of the Social Security Disability Insurance program are getting more benefits overpayments back these days but have far more overpayments to recover, according to officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
July 28, 2011
CMS: Federal Health Spending Amounts to 38% of 2009 RevenueHealth spending swallowed 38% of federal revenue in 2010, down from 54% in 2009, but up from 28% in 2007.
July 28, 2011
Better Benefits, Better CompaniesCompanies that offer richer employee benefits packages may grow faster than other companies, according to Aflac Inc.
July 28, 2011
Should your client go on Medicaid?According to one expert on elder care, advising aging clients to get rid of all their assets so they can qualify for Medicaid is a bad idea.