Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona‘s (BCBSAZ) is the next health insurance company that we will discuss in this continuing series of posts related to efforts by Blue Cross Blue Shield member health plans to undertake programs designed to increase access to affordable health insurance for the uninsured. BCBSAZ launched a program called BlueSolutions which [...]
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Arizona Health Insurance Loses LifeWise
According to Angela Gonzales in the Phoenix Business Journal, LifeWise Health Plan has decided to exit the Arizona health insurance market. The insurer stated that the plan did not have enough enrollees to turn a profit. LifeWise launched its Arizona plans in 2004. Fortunately, policyholders won’t have to worry about having developed conditions that would [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Discounts
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) has annouced that they are extending their discounts for early enrollment discounts for their portfolio of Medicare Supplement Plans. BCBSAZ’s discount program extensions increase the duration of the Medicare Supplement discounts from 5 to 10 years and raises the eligibilty age from 65 1/2 to 67 years [...]
Arizona Health Plans Create Association
According to the Phoenix Business Journal, seven Arizona health insurance companies are working together to create the Arizona Association of Health Plans Inc. The Seven health plans include: Arizona Physician’s IPA Mercy Care Plan Care1st Arizona University Family Care Phoenix Health Plan SCAN Long Term Care Health Choice AZ The Association hopes to add more [...]
Health Care Reform – State Initiatives
The 2008 presidential election is now in he books, but there are still a number of states that have health care reform initiatives with unknown results. A rundown of pending and decided state health care initiatives is as follows: Arizona’s Proposition 101 would prohibit the passage of any law that would prohibit an individual from [...]
Arizona Health Care Initiative
There has been a considerable amount of discussion surrounding the health care proposals from presidential candidates Obama & McCain, however state-level health care plans haven’t received much attention. Arizona in particular has a health care initiative on the ballot called Arizona Proposition 101. If this proposition were to pass, the state of Arizona would be [...]
New Individual Health Plan for Arizona residents
Last week, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) announced the launch of 5 new Arizona individual health insurance plans . The new plans deliver a wide range of co-insurance and deductible levels and can save customers as much as 40% from previous health insurance options. The new individual health insurance plans offered by [...]
