It was the broken leg heard throughout the stadium. Kevin Ware brutally broke his leg while playing basketball for the University of Louisville in a big NCAA Tournament game last week. As he was rushed to the hospital there was already a debate stirring about the treatment of unpaid college students who generate millions of [...]
California’s Governor Jerry Brown made a controversial move earlier this year to end the state’s Healthy Families Insurance Program for low-income children and cover them through Medi-Cal which is the state’s version of Medicaid. This change to children’s health insurance in California was an effort to drastically cut costs, but is it working? Now a [...]
Based on the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Health Insurance Plan Study, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of California received the highest California health insurance ranking. The award recipient earned five out five in all categories including coverage and benefits, provider choice, information and communication, claims processing, statements, customer service and approval processes. They received five [...]
Sofi Insurance, a health insurance company out of California, is trying to give residents more options when it comes to finding health insurance policies. Sofi is looking to revolutionize the buying process through an entire new process. Their rate and coverage comparison system aims to put the power back into the laps of consumers so [...]
Have you ever wondered why your health insurance premiums are so high and continue to rise? It may feel like the health insurance industry is taking advantage of consumers by rising premium costs across the board, but this isn’t necessarily true. A very interesting article on WashingtonPost.com shows a breakdown of exactly how much goes [...]
A recently released report by America’s Health Rankings which measured the % of the adult population in each state that does not maintain health insurance coverage (either private or public) indicated that California has one of the highest uninsured rates in the country with 19.4% lacking health insurance. Ten years ago in 2001, California’s uninsured% [...]
San Bernardino & Riverside counties are set to launch new low-income health plans pending sign-off on paperwork by Federal Government. Leadership of both counties believe that the plans could be live by January 1 2012. San Bernardino’s plan is called Arrowcare, while Riverside Counties plan is named Riverside County Healthcare. Both plans will cover residents [...]
Chinese Community Health Plan (CCHP) effective Jan 1 2012 will transition its pharmacy benefits management company Navitus Health Solutions so that its members will not experience any interruption of service resulting from Walgreens ongoing dispute with Express Scripts. Beginning Jan 1, Express Scripts customers will not be able to utilize Walgreen’s to get their prescriptions [...]
More and more individual health insurance plans are cutting out maternity health insurance as part of their benefits package to save on costs. This is extremely detrimental to new parents as health care costs continue to rise. In California specifically, 82% of plans had maternity coverage seven years ago, but today that number has dropped [...]
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. [...]
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