A rule that will require health insurers to maintain a medical loss ratio (MLR) of 80% for their individual and small-group products already has caused some health insurance broker to restructure they way they pay brokers and agents. Other insurers have decided to scale back or exit the individual market. One health plan has said [...]
One of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, is partnering with Health Compare , a one-stop online guide to help individuals and families easily research, compare, buy and enroll in the right individual health insurance plan at the right price.With more than 9.5 percent of our nation’s population currently unemployed, it is crucial that the healthcare [...]
Rosita Velez seems like just the sort of person federal lawmakers had in mind when they included a provision in the sweeping health reform law creating new high-risk insurance pools for people who are uninsured and have serious health problems.
Velez has not seen a doctor since losing her health benefits after being laid off by [...]
Discovery Benefits of Fargo is getting its 15 minutes of fame on the Internet.And it isn’t pretty.
It involves a story about a single mother in Colorado Springs, Colo., who lost her job and is battling leukemia and was in jeopardy of losing group health insurance.
The reason? A check she sent to continue health coverage through [...]
Miami, Florida — An online life insurance firm is breaking new ground with an exclusive web-based system that lets customers choose how much they want to pay for a term life insurance policy. With the introduction of the Select Your Price concept, consumers with tight budgets in a tough economy are in the driver’s seat, [...]
OLDWICK, N.J.— A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating (FSR) of B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” to Specialty Insurance Company (BSIC) (Metairie, LA), a member of Bankers Insurance Group (Bankers). Concurrently, A.M. Best has affirmed the FSR of B+ (Good) and ICRs of “bbb-” of Bankers and its other [...]
People shopping for individual health insurance policies in Connecticut saw price increases in line with those knowledgeable by others throughout the country, according to Connecticut Insurance Department statistics and a recent report by the nonprofit Kaiser Family underpinning.
Most people get health coverage through an employer or some other collection plan — about 157 million Americans [...]
By ROB STOCK - New Zealanders are paying more for common medical procedures than patients in other countries, according to a previously unpublished international comparison conducted by private health insurers.
The research on the comparative costs of procedures such as hip replacements and cataract removals was carried out last year by the International Federation of Health [...]
By next year everybody who wants admittance to an NHS dentist should have it, according to the NHS operating framework issued by the Department of group Health insurance. This might prove a challenging objective to meet. While the latest figures from the NHS Information Centre show that that the number of people visiting an NHS [...]
By Keith L. Martin-Gov. Ed Rendell announced on June 9 that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department will investigate its biggest health providers to determine the reasons behind a pattern of controversial rate increases, and especially the extent to which those increases are driven by the use of questionable health profiling tools, as per statement.
The companies in [...]