A recent press release from HealthAmerica has announced that Advantra, the HealthAmerica Medicare Advantage plan, is ranked among the top 20 best Medicare and commercial health care plans in the 2008 “America’s Best Health Plans” list. Advantra was ranked #18 out of over 200 plans. The survey was conducted by U.S. News & World Report [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Top Kansas Health Plans
The top health insurance plans in Kansas for 2008, based on the annual US News and World Report rankings are listed below. Rankings are based on a scale of 1 to 100, and are based on the following categories: 1) Consumer assessment 2) Prevention and 3) Treatment. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, [...]
New Golden Rule Health Insurance Plans
United HealthCare Group announced the introduction of new individual health insurance plans being offered by their subsidiary Golden Rule Insurance Company. The New health plans will initially be available in a twenty state footprint*, with more states to be added in the future. The plans will be marketed under the UnitedHealthOne brand. The new health [...]
Indiana Children Without Health Insurance
A recent research report has shown that the number of uninsured children in Indiana has decreased from 162,000 to 131,000. In addition, the number of uninsured could go down even lower as of the 8% of Indiana children that go without health insurance coverage, about 48% are eligible for Hoosier Healthwise, Indiana’s state sponsored health [...]
Employees Pay Higher Health Insurance Deductibles
(Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times) Individuals with employer-provided health insurance now pay, on average, over $1,000 in deductibles. That is an increase of over 17% from last year, when they paid $859. Employees with preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are primarily affected, as well as those working for small businesses. Employers are increasing deductibles in order to [...]
Health Insurance Coverage For All?
Health Insurance industry representatives presented to Congress yesterday that they would support legislation that would require insurers to accept all applicants (guaranteed issue), but they would also seek legislation that requires all Americans to obtain health insurance coverage. To date two prominent members of the health insurance industry, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and [...]
Top Pennsylvania Health Plans
Posting the top Pennsylvania Health Plans (as ranked by US News and World Report in Conjunction with NCQA) is the 6th state in the series here at healthinsurancesort.com. Previous state rankings have been posted for the following midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. According to the 2008 rankings: the top Pennsylvania health insurance plans [...]
Top Wisconsin Health Plans
In the recently released US News & World Report commercial health plan rankings (which takes into account both customer satisfaction and a number of different healthcare related measures such as disease prevention), The top 10 Wisconsin health insurance plans were ranked as follows. Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin – driven by very high [...]
Health Insurance Assistance for Children in Utah
Select Health, a non profit health insurer serving Utah and Idaho, has launched a premium assistance program that will supplement the existing SelectHealth Kids Plan, and reduce monthly premiums by 40-60% for qualifying residents. Utah’s children’s health insurance program (CHIP) currently provides a low cost health insurance plan to families in need who have uninsured [...]
New Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
Kaiser Permanente now offers a subsidized individual health insurance plan that costs as low as $20 per month. The plan is called Bridge Community Health Plan. The Bridge plan targets individuals and families who are experiencing tough times but make too much money to qualify for government sponsored programs like Medicare of Medicaid. Kaiser Permanente [...]
