The government option for health insurance has its pros and cons, but businesses are noticing that private health insurance could be the better choice. The article by Jamie L. Brockway, “Business Owners See Value of Private Health Plans Over Government Option” on ifawebnews.com talks about what challenges business owners face as they make this decision. [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Happy Holidays From HealthInsuranceSort.com!
HealthInsuranceSort.com wishes everyone a very happy holiday season. With New Years Day upon us, we expect a lot of people to take a look at their lifestyle and make some New Year’s resolutions. It’s tradition and it can be good for us to sit back and take a look at what opportunities we may have [...]
Florida Health Insurance Enrollment Down
Florida health insurance has experienced another drop in enrollment for commercial policies according to the article “Health Insurance Coverage Continues to Drop in Florida” found on OrlandoSentinel.com. Commercial policies include individual health insurance as well as small group policies. This drop is unfortunate, but not too much of a surprise since economic times continue to [...]
Michigan Health Insurance Possibly Giving Rebates
UPDATED INFORMATION 01/25/2012 – The Governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, announced his intent to create an Exchange which is state-based called the MI Health Marketplace. It is consistent with recommendations from the Exchange Steering Committee. Based on a federal health regulators ruling made earlier this week, about 340,000 Michigan residents who purchase their own individual [...]
Humana Promotes Healthy Living to Save Money
A growing trend among health insurance companies is rewarding customers for living healthy. With better health, insurers are hoping you will be less likely to file a claim and therefore be a more profitable customer overall. Humana has taken it a step further and is offering a full blown program focused on rewarding customers for [...]
Health Insurance Benefits: States May Get More Say
President Obama has been facing a great deal of criticism for his health care reform, and it’s coming directly from many states. Earlier today, the Obama administration rolled out a benefits framework for millions of Americans who will get individual health insurance through the health care overhaul, and they are giving states the power to [...]
Medicare Special Enrollment Period — What is It?
The Medicare Special Enrollment Period (SEP) is essentially an exemption that allows seniors who meet certain circumstantial events to make Medicare Advantage plan purchases outside of the annual open enrollment period. Qualifying circumstances include: Seniors with a change in there permanent address Seniors who enter or leave a nursing home Seniors who are eligible for [...]
Iowa Health Insurance May Face Big Rate Increase
Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield has proposed a 9.4% health insurance rate increase for residents purchasing Iowa health insurance. This has some of the 86,000 policyholders up in arms according to Tony Leys article “Wellmark Customers Grill Executive Over Premium Increase” found on DesMoinesRegister.com. It makes sense that these policyholders would be frustrated with another rate [...]
BCBSNC Building Chronic Care Facility
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is opening a new clinic with UNC Health Care for up to 5000 of their customer’s with chronic conditions that need special attention. BCBSNC is the largest health insurer in the state according to the article “Blue Cross, UNC Build Chronic Care Unit” by Laura Oleniacz on [...]
Prism EPO by Empire Being Withdrawn
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield is withdrawing their most popular plan for small groups (Prism EPO) as well as other plans effective April 1 2012. The decision came following intense negotiations between Empire Blue Cross and state regulators which resulted in EMpire not being able to set their rates based on their own actuarial analysis [...]
