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.
Buck: Health Costs to Rise Again
By staff WriterEmployer health benefits costs may increase a little faster in 2011, and the cost of high-deductible plans will rise about as quickly as the cost of other types of coverage, according to Buck Consultants.
October 12, 2010
Bitter PillsAs the health insurance market struggles to manage the ongoing uncertainties of implementing the 2,700 pages of healthcare reform legislation passed by Congress and signed ...
October 11, 2010
PPACA: EBSA Tries to Ease Employer FearsThe Employee Benefits Security Administration has come down on the side of health plan sponsors in several newly posted answers to questions about the Affordable Care Act.
October 11, 2010
PBM: We Can Predict Who Will Stop Taking MedicineExpress Scripts Inc. says it now can identify health plan members who need extra help with taking prescribed medications.
October 11, 2010
LifePlans: LTC Carriers Botch Few Claim DenialsResearchers say they could find few examples of private long term care insurers wrongly denying claims.
October 11, 2010
HCA on PPACA: Let Exchange Plans Handle BillingManagers of the new health insurance exchanges should make participating plans collect all payments owed by member patients, according to a HCA Inc. representative.
October 11, 2010
Trial Lawyers Include LTC Insurance in ReportThe American Association for Justice has put "insurance denials" alongside "chemical restraints," "neglect" and "bed rail deaths" in a report on elderly Americans and the civil justice system.
October 11, 2010
PBM: We Can Predict Who Will Stop Taking MedicineExpress Scripts Inc. says it now can identify health plan members who need extra help with taking prescribed medications.