According to JD Power’s Member Health Plan Ratings 2010 Health Insurance Plan Study, Pennsylvania’s award recipient is Capital BlueCross which ranked among one of the best providers in the state. Pennsylvania health insurance consumers find this report extremely useful and it can help you make an educated decision on your health care provider. Other insurers [...]
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Geisinger Health Plan: GMC Named a Top Hospital
Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), from Geisinger Health Plan, has received the 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmark Award. The study was released which identified the top 100 US Hospitals based on overall hospital performance according to the Geisinger website. GMC was one of 4 Pennsylvania facilities to in the top 100 list. It’s [...]
Geisinger Health Plan Updates on H1N1 Flu Virus
Geisinger Health Plan has announced that they will no longer screen visitors or restrict people from entering Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. This is great news in terms of the virus and the threat it now poses. The cases of H1N1 in the area is very low right now and an emergence of the regular [...]
Geisinger Health Plan Offering Useful Tools For Members
Geisinger Health Plan has an extremely useful website which offers tools for their members to better their health. Their main goal is that their members have positive and comfortable encounters as they navigate the website and use the various services available. Some of the tools offered on the website include health librarians available to answer [...]
Geisinger Health Plan Hospital Restrictions
Upon the heels of the H1N1 virus outbreak, Geisinger Health Plan hospitals will continue to have visitation restrictions. Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center will keep enforcing the visitor restrictions to help prevent the spread of H1N1 and other dangerous viruses. Dr. Lisa Esolen, Medical Director for Infection Control at Geisinger Health [...]
Geisinger Health Plan: Geisinger Gold
Geisinger Health Insurance, offers a program that will help you choose the right Medicare plan. It’s called Geisinger Gold and it has many advantages. With the Geisinger name behind it, Geisinger Gold offers several coverage options that suit your Medicare needs. Plans are affordable and they provide a large network of physicians and participating hospitals [...]
Geisinger Health Plan Tackling Childhood Obesity
According to the article “Geisinger Study Aims to Find Fun, Effective Way to Combat Pediatric Obesity” found of their website, childhood obesity in the US is on the rise. With this comes a significant raise in the risk of type 2 diabetes. This has motivated Geisinger Health Plan to do something about it. Researchers at [...]
Top Ranked Medicare Health Plans 2009-2010
US News and World Report recently released their updated health plan rankings for 2009-2010. Their rankings of Medicare Health Plans was as follows, with 2008 ranking in parenthesis. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado (8) Fallon Community Health Plan (Not In Top 10) Geisinger Health Plan (3) Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization (10) Capital Health [...]
Geisinger Health Plan Releases Influenza Update
Geisinger Health Plan recently released an update on the 2009 Influenza flu season. This is found in the article “Influenza Update From Geisinger Health System: 900 Cases” by Dr. Lisa Esolen who is the director for Geisinger Health System Infection Control on Poconorecord.com. They continue to see a steady increase in the number of flu [...]
More Top Ranked Medicare Health Plans
In November of 2008, we published a series of posts breaking down the US News and report’s rankings of commercial health plans. Similarly, below are their rankings of the top Medicare health plans for 2008 based on the same criteria (consumer assessment, prevention, treatment). Preferred Care Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Southern California Geisinger Health [...]
