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.
Activist Group Blasts PacifiCare Deal
By Staff WriterThe Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is calling for California regulators to put strict limits on efforts by UnitedHealth Group Inc. to acquire ...
August 03, 2005
Protecting Boomers Against Acute-Care Cost InflationAn ordinary 55-year-old boomer with an annual income of $60,000 today could end up spending more than $3,000 per month on out-of-pocket health care ...
August 03, 2005
Health Care Planning Important For Boomers"As they approach retirement, baby boomers are asking, 'What am I going to do for my health insurance?' They are anxious and want to ...
August 03, 2005
How Many Clients Really Need Long-Duration LTC Protection?Are agents losing sales because they are selling too many long term care insurance policies offering costly long-term benefits? That could be one conclusion ...
August 02, 2005
Provider Network Firm Adds Regional ManagerPrivate Healthcare Systems Inc. has hired Michele Deverich to be a regional vice president.[@@]Private Healthcare, Waltham, Mass., says Deverich will be in charge of ...
August 02, 2005
Justice Department To Settle With Cincinnati Ob-GynsFederal antitrust lawyers are attacking what they say was an illegal effort by Cincinnati-area obstetrician-gynecologists to work together to increase managed care reimbursement rates.[@@]Officials ...
August 02, 2005
Enrollment Program To Reach Out To ParentsMore than 70% of the 8.4 million U.S. children without health coverage already are eligible for Medicaid or State Children's Health Insurance Program coverage.[@@]Researchers ...
August 02, 2005
Higher Commercial Rates Aid CoventryAn 8.7% increase in the average amount of premium revenue per commercial health plan member spurred second-quarter earnings at Coventry Health Care Inc.[@@]Coventry, Bethesda, ...