Long-Term Care Planning
Long-term care insurance news and analysis, including coverage of short-term care insurance, long-term care hybrid products, and other arrangements for paying for long-term and post-acute care.
Study: Managed Care Helps Sick Beneficiaries
By Staff WriterResearchers who are concerned about the effects of the Medicare managed care program on consumers say even sick members of the managed care plans usually ...
May 03, 2006
Highmark Likes Looks Of Optical ChainA large health insurer is buying an eyewear vendor.A subsidiary of Highmark Inc., Pittsburgh, the parent of Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has agreed ...
April 23, 2006
The Vision ThingAdding vision care benefits is a great way to perk up a boring benefits package.Vision care benefits can increase worker productivity, and they appeal to ...
April 02, 2006
Annual Nursing Home Costs Passed $70,000, Study FindsThe average annual cost for a private room in a nursing home rose to $70,912, or $194 a day, up 2% over $69,400, or $190 ...
April 02, 2006
Annual Nursing Home Costs Passed $70,000, Study FindsThe average annual cost for a private room in a nursing home rose to $70,912, or $194 a day, up 2% over $69,400, or $190 ...
April 01, 2006
Put LTCI on a pedestalThere are 7 million Americans with long term care insurance. Eighty-nine percent of people between the ages of 45 and 64, and 77 percent of people over the age of 65, are uninsured for long term care. But statistics show that two out of every five
March 31, 2006
Put LTCI on a pedestalThere are 7 million Americans with long term care insurance. Eighty-nine percent of people between the ages of 45 and 64, and 77 percent of people over the age of 65, are uninsured for long term care. But statistics show that two out of every five