Recent News & Comments About health insurance plans
Insurers Must Improve Benefits for New Health Exchanges
Half the people who buy their own health insurance, rather than depend on an employer, are in plans that have fewer benefits than what the U.S. health-care law will require beginning in 2014, a study found.
The health insurance plans, they are a-changing
Health insurance plans will have to beef up on benefits if they want to stay in business under Obamacare, according to a new study out Wednesday afternoon from Health Affairs. The health overhaul law mandates a wave of new requirements all intended to make health insurance more robust. It requires health plans to cover a set of “ essential health benefits, ” a comprehensive package of benefits ...
InsureMonkey Health Insurance Exchange to Offer Exclusive Online Access to New CoventryOne HMO Health Plans
This Summer, Nevadans Can Apply Online for CoventryOne’s Select HMO Series Plans Exclusively on InsureMonkey’s Health Insurance Exchange Platform (PRWeb May 23, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9529798.htm
Half of Americans with individual health plans could gain better coverage under the ACA
More than half of Americans with individual market health insurance coverage in 2010 were enrolled in so-called "tin" plans, which provide less coverage than the lowest "bronze"-level plans in the Affordable Care Act, and therefore would not be able to be offered in the health insurance exchanges that are being created under the law, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published ...
Health Insurance Cutbacks Squeeze The Insured
More than 1 in 5 Americans had a problem getting insurance to pay for a hospital, doctor or other health care in the past year, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.
State cuts temporary deals with 3 health insurance providers
The state is making temporary deals with three state employee health insurance providers until officials can determine which carriers should receive longer-term HMO contracts. The 90-day contracts with Health Alliance HMO, Health Alliance Illinois and Coventry Health Care HMO are among eight health insurance options available during the open enrollment period, which ends June 15.
Why Businesses Should Never Pay Individual Health Insurance Premiums: Zane Benefits Publishes New Data
Some businesses might want to pay directly for an employee's individual health insurance plans without utilizing an ERISA and HIPAA-compliant HRA, but doing so may put the business out of compliance with federal regulations and increase the business's (and employee's) tax liability.(PRWEB) May 22, 2012 Federal regulations prohibit businesses from paying directly for employee's individual health ...
Budgeting for Healthcare in Retirement
Many Americans assume that Medicare, the government-backed health-insurance program, will cover the majority of their heathcare costs after they stop working.
Ave Maria University ditches student health insurance plans
Money and morality are the twin reasons Ave Maria University will no longer offer group health insurance plans to students as of Aug. 15.
Department of Health & Human Services Reports Unreasonable Health Insurance Rate Increases in 9 States, Zane Benefits ...
Zane Benefits Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that proposed rate increases by health insurance carriers were excessive and would affect over 42,000 residents in 9 states.Park City, UT (PRWEB) May 23, 2012 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last month that proposed rate increases ...
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