A new health insurance scam has evolved out of the new health care bill that was recently signed. Opportunistic scammers have been going door-to-door, posed as Government officials in some cases, trying to scare people into purchasing phony health insurance plans. These cases have become common enough that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department [...]
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Colorado Health Insurance Companies Facing Fines
According to the article “Colorado Fines Two Health Insurers” found on News In Brief on ama-assn.org, Colorado’s Division of Insurance has placed 2 fines against large health insurance plans back in March. This was based on reviews of Colorado health insurance companies’ business practices. One company was Aetna which was fined a total of $624,000 [...]
New Jersey Health Insurance Pilot Program
The five largest New Jersey health insurance companies and five physician groups have launched a pilot program to reduce administrative costs by allowing hospitals and physicians to communicate directly with health plans and address administrative tasks through a web portal. The pilot is sponsored by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. If the [...]
Medicare Supplement Plans in Michigan
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) doesn’t advertise their Medicare Supplement plans because they are such money losers for the company. BCBSM has a dominant market position with nearly 60% market share, and the second largest Medicare Supplement membership rests with United Healthcare who maintains just under 20% of the market. Several other health [...]
Top Rated Medicare Plan In California
Open enrollment for Medicare Advantage plans is rapidly approaching (November 15 – December 31). We thought we’d blog about some of the top rated plans in each state according to US News and World Reports annual rankings. In California, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan boasts the 2 top ranked plans in the state. Kaiser Foundation Health [...]
Medicare Advantage Plans – Aetna
Aetna has announced that they are discontinuing two Medicare Advantage Plans. The first is being shut down because its membership dropped below the Federal requirement of at least 100 members. It had 75 members. The other is being phased out in all but 5 states due to a new Federal requirement that all fee for [...]
Florida Health Insurance To be Sold Via Storefronts by BCBSFL
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Plans to sell individual health insurance plans via storefront on a larger scale in the future. BCBSFL who has had an operational health insurance storefront in Pembroke Pines for more than a year plans to expand to five to eight stores across the state. Individual health insurance have become [...]
Top Rated Health Plan In Pennsylvania
When JD Power & Associates rated the top health plans in Pennsylvania, they also included Delaware in a region which included both Pennsylvania & Delaware. However, of the eleven private health insurance companies that were included in the study and part of this region, eight of them where Pennsylvania health plans, and the three that [...]
