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.
URAC Names Chief Eecutive
By Staff WriterThe board of URAC has picked Alan Spielman to be the nonprofit health care accreditation group's new president.[@@]Spielman succeeds Garry Carneal, who left URAC ...
September 25, 2005
Remembering Mary Jane FisherI was traveling out West when I got a call from Mary Jane Fisher's daughter telling me that her mom had passed away at the ...
September 23, 2005
Viga Launches Automated Enrollment FormatViga Technologies has introduced an online benefits enrollment system built to work with Adobe Inc.'s "Intelligent Document" system.[@@]Viga, part of Thomson Financial Services Inc., ...
September 23, 2005
Feds Map Out Medicare Drug, Managed Care ProgramsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved new 2006 Medicare prescription drug program and Medicare managed care program offerings.[@@]The insurers with products ...
September 23, 2005
The Updated Katrina Contribution ListHere is a partial description of life and health insurance community responses to Katrina.[@@]- The Texas Association of Health Underwriters, Duncanville, Texas, has announced ...
September 22, 2005
NAIC Endorses Marsh SettlementThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners says it has reached a multistate settlement agreement with Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.[@@]The NAIC settlement endorses a ...
September 22, 2005
Survey%3A Workers Like Employer-Chosen CoverageSome health policymakers want to put individual consumers in charge of buying their own health coverage, but many consumers seem to prefer employer-chosen plans.[@@]Jeanne ...
September 22, 2005
Buck%3A Employers Still Epect Big Health Cost IncreasesA large benefits consulting firm says it sees signs that double-digit increases in health care benefits costs are continuing.[@@]Researchers at the firm, Buck Consultants, ...