There are currently five health insurers vying to coordinate the care of Kansas residents receiving Medicaid services. The competition is spurred by two companies with strong ties to Witchita which are Coventry Health Care of Kansas Inc, and UnitedHealthcare. State lawmakers are taking into consideration all five companies and are carefully weighing a Medicaid-reform proposal [...]
More and more Kansas residents are looking for affordable health insurance as premiums rise and an increasing number of employers drop health insurance from benefits packages. Discount health insurance policies are readily available for many Kansas residents, you just have to know where to look. One popular plan is offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) has a unique program for the residents of Kansas. It’s called Affordablue and it’s geared towards affordable options for residents who struggle to afford preventative hospital and surgical benefits. This plan can give you the help needed to pay for everyday and unexpected health care costs. Affordablue is [...]
For many American families, COBRA coverage is still too expensive even with the current COBRA subsidy which is temporarily in place. The COBRA subsidy program pays 65% of the monthly premiums for up to 15 months, but still can require a substantial monthly expense, as the average family of four still pays on average $389 [...]
Last week Humana announced that they were expanding the footprint of their Humana One short term health insurance plans to five additional states. The five new states include Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and georgia. The Humana One short term individual health insurance plan is now available in twenty states. Like most short term health insurance [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield member plans initiatives to increase access to affordable health insurance by the uninsured. PartVI Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) worked closely with both the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society to create the ValueBlue health insurance product line. ValueBlue is designed for Kansas residents that earn less [...]
Despite the fiscal crisis being experienced nationwide, 14 states found money this year to increase health insurance coverage for an additional 250,000 children nationwide. The states took advantage of $33 Million that was appropriated by Congress when it reauthorized the Children’s health insurance program (CHIP) back in February. the 14 states that are expanding their [...]
J.D. Powers & Associates rated the top private health plans in the heartland states (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota), and the results were as follows. Similar to many of the other 17 regions in the JD Power Survey, a Blue Cross Blue Shield health plan took top honors. Blue Cross Blue [...]
The top health insurance plans in Kansas for 2008, based on the annual US News and World Report rankings are listed below. Rankings are based on a scale of 1 to 100, and are based on the following categories: 1) Consumer assessment 2) Prevention and 3) Treatment. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, [...]
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