A great ranking of the top Medicare Health Plans in Florida can be found at http://www.medicarehealthplan.org/medicare-advantage/plan-ratings/florida.htm. These rankings were developed by the NCQA, and published in a very user friendly way here. To summarize, the top Florida Medicare Health Plans are 1. Capital Health Plan 2. Health First Health Plan 3. AvMed Health Plans 4. [...]
Archive for September, 2011
The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
More and more Americans are facing chronic health conditions which is making it more difficult for them to obtain affordable health insurance. Health care reform has aimed to fix this problem by implementing the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) according to the article “Uninsurable: A Notion of the Past?” by Omar Sommereyns. This plan targets [...]
Humana Inc. Acquiring Arcadian Management Services
Humana Health Insurance Inc. recently announced that they have signed an agreement to acquire Arcadian Management Services which is a Medicare Advantage HMO based out of Oakland, California according to Enhanced Online News. The Medicare Advantage HMO has about 64,000 members in 15 states throughout the nation. Terms have yet to be disclosed. Thomas J. [...]
Health Insurance Haggling With Your Doctor
We don’t generally think of ourselves as consumers when we visit our doctor, but that’s exactly what we are. We are paying money for a service, and even if the insurance company is paying most of the bill, we are a consumer to the health insurance company as we pay premiums each month. A report [...]
Personal Health Insurance Is More Expensive
Health care reform has a goal of making health insurance more affordable and easier to obtain for all Americans by 2014. With this time frame coming within a few years, many are questioning why personal health insurance for millions of Americans is actually increasing. According to the article “For Many Without Workplace Health Coverage, Premium Costs [...]
