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.
Judge OKs Prudential And Health Net Settlements
By Staff WriterA federal judge has approved settlements that should help Health Net Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. resolve litigation with 900,000 doctors.[@@]Health Net, Los Angeles, ...
September 28, 2005
To Cut Claims Costs, Help Claimants Who Arent Yet Born> The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported the startling news that the U.S. infant mortality rate increased in 2002 for ...
September 28, 2005
Court Sides With Employers On Benefits Age DiscriminationA federal court in Philadelphia has issued a ruling that could help employers continue to offer richer health benefits for retirees under age 65 ...
September 28, 2005
Big Business Learns To Love Mini MedA coalition of blue chip employers is out there promoting the idea that a little medical insurance is better than none.The HR Policy Association, ...
September 28, 2005
CharacteristicsNote: I just want to run this so that we have something in the supplement about dental. We can cut either the worker characteristics ...
September 28, 2005
Ensuring A Smooth Migration To Consumer-Directed Health CareBreaking through people's hesitancy to move past the status quoMore employers than originally predicted have made the transition to consumer-directed health care in an ...
September 28, 2005
Filling Health Plan HolesSome employers are thinking about using hospital indemnity plans and other limited-benefit medical plans to fill in gaps in major medical coverage.Major players in ...