Archive for the ‘Aetna’ Category
Posted on: July 16th, 2012 by SamTabes
J.D. Power and Associates released their health plan rankings for 2012, and the award recipient for the state of Pennsylvania was Geisinger Health Plan of Pennsylvania. Geisinger’s Overall Experience received a score of 5 out of 5. Other categories that received 5 out of 5 included Coverage and Benefits, Information and Communication, Claims Processing, Statements, [...]
Posted on: June 25th, 2012 by SamTabes
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released their fifth annual National Health Insurer Report Card which is based on a random sampling of about 1.1 million electronic claims for 1.9 million medical services submitted in the month of February 2012. The companies included were Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Health Care Service Corporation, [...]
Posted on: May 29th, 2012 by SamTabes
J.D. Power and Associates ranked health plans in the state of New York and lumped it together with New Jersey. The award recipient for these states was Independent Health Association which received an impressive rating of five for overall experience. It received a five in all categories which includes coverage and benefits, provider choice, information [...]
Posted on: May 21st, 2012 by SamTabes
Aetna, along with Carilion Clinic, has started offering a variety of affordable individual health insurance plans in the Roanoke area. This is an effort to expand their reach through the accountable care initiative. The Aetna Whole Health plans are aimed at consumers looking for quality health insurance with more affordable costs. Tom Grote, president of [...]
Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by SamTabes
An interesting partnership is taking place between Aenta Health Insurance and the wholesale club, Costco. The Connecticut health insurer is starting to sell individual health insurance policies to members of Costco. Aetna announced in April that its Costco Personal Health Insurance Program will offer five health plans online. The plans will provide options for major [...]
Posted on: April 16th, 2012 by SamTabes
Aetna health insurer announced the availability of a new and improved version of their already popular iTriage application for the iTunes App Store and the Android market according to the press release found on BusinessWire. Aetna is striving to give more power to the consumer by giving easier access to health care information in an [...]
Posted on: February 9th, 2012 by SamTabes
More and more colleges are requiring their students to carry health insurance and they are giving quality options to make this possible. Michigan State University has recently become the sixth school in the Big Ten to require their students to carry a form of health insurance. This may seem like a harsh requirement but the [...]
Posted on: January 9th, 2012 by ymedina
Update 2/23/2012 – The Aetna/Best Buy partnership is under way. If the experiment proves to be successful, it could lead to more retail stores opening health programs in shop to appeal to customers’ desire to get and stay healthy and fit. Aetna Health Insurance and Best Buy retail may seem like an unlikely team, but [...]
Posted on: October 26th, 2011 by BlogAdmin
If you are over age 65, you are probably aware that Medicare health plan open enrollment time is upon us (October 15 – December 7). Furthermore, If you are in the process of researching plans here is a resource that might save you time. Medicarehealthplan.org has repackaged the annual NCQA national ratings of Medicare health [...]
Posted on: October 12th, 2011 by BlogAdmin
If you are an Ohio resident and shopping for a Medicare Health Plan during open enrollment, which begins October 15 this year, check out this page for a nice ranking of the top plans http://www.medicarehealthplan.org/medicare-advantage/plan-ratings/ohio.html. They did a nice job of repackaging the annual rankings created by NCQA into a much more readable and user [...]