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Research before you pick health insurance
It cost about $15,600 to provide health coverage for a family of four in 2008. Some of that was paid for by employers, but increasingly, more of it is coming out of workers’ pockets.
The problem is consumers tend to research more when buying a car or a big appliance than when selecting a health insurance […]
Baucus offers fix for U.S. health insurance
Sen. Max Baucus outlined his plan Wednesday for providing affordable health insurance coverage to every American, lowering health care costs and making Americans healthier.
Baucus, D-Mont., said Americans need health insurance reform now. More and more people are losing their jobs and their health insurance and health care costs are threatening to overwhelm the nation’s economy […]
WPS Health Insurance Improves The Claims Experience With Cincom Eloquence
Worldwide software provider Cincom Systems announces that WPS Health Insurance, one of Wisconsin’s largest health insurers (www.wpsic.com), has successfully implemented Cincom Eloquence (www.cincom.com/cds) document automation software and is now realizing significant improvements in the speed, quality and relevancy of correspondence to its over nine million customers.
Penn Treaty American Corporation To Sell Network Insurance Senior Health Division
Penn Treaty American Corporation (PTYA) has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Network Insurance Senior Health Division (”ISHD”). The Company will disclose the identity of the purchaser and the material terms of the offer upon the completion of definitive documentation.
State Helps Unemployed Find Health Insurance
The increasingly rocky economy and the higher state unemployment rate have pushed Tennessee to expand one of its health insurance programs.
Workers who have lost their jobs now have a reasonable option for health insurance.
Cigna targets small biz with new health plans
For the first time, Cigna HealthCare is setting its sights on two markets it had all but ignored in the past: health insurance for individuals and families — and businesses with 50 or fewer employees.
The Bloomfield, Conn.-based company rolled out a suite of new health plans specifically to target these two fast-growing health insurance markets […]
New health insurance program not filling up as expected
The state’s new health insurance subsidy program for small businesses has not yet filled to capacity, despite early predictions from policymakers that the program would quickly run out of money.
Slowdown in Health Insurance Rate Increases Only Relative
San Diego employers will likely notice additional upticks in their health care costs for 2009, but forecasts show that the average rate of increase could slow to the lowest level since 2001.
On average, health care insurance will cost local businesses 7 percent more in 2009, down from increases of 8.9 percent in 2008 and […]
Chicago black women twice as likely to die of breast cancer
Black women in Chicago are more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer as white women, according to a new report that finds the racial gap is widening at an alarming rate.
The breast-cancer death rate for black women in Chicago was 116 percent higher than that of white women in 2005, the Metropolitan […]