Health care reform continues to be a hot topic throughout the nation, and Ohio health insurance is taking a stand. The article “Ohio’s Battle for Health Care Freedom” by Ed Meese and Jack Painter on Politico.com talks about what is driving Ohioans to fight against Obama’s health care reform bill. A recent poll shows that [...]
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Top Medicare Health Plans in Ohio
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 [...]
Health Insurance Rankings for Medical Mutual of Ohio
Based on a recent news release from the Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio, JD Power and Associates has ranked an Ohio insurer as being the highest in member satisfaction in the state. The JD Power and Associates 2011 Ohio Health Insurance Plan Study has given Medical Mutual of Ohio this honor. The 2011 Member Satisfaction [...]
Medicare Fraud
According to the article “Largest Ever Medicare Fraud Scheme By Single Criminal Enterprise Busted” by Christian Nordqvist on MedicalNewsToday.com, a nation wide scheme has conned the system out of $160 million. Over 52 arrests have already occurred with possibly more to come. Security forces claim that this crime is the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever [...]
Ohio High Risk Health Insurance
Beginning 9/1/2010, health insurance companies in Ohio who decline applicants due to pre-existing conditions are required to provide information about the Ohio high-risk pool and the open enrollment program. Since the coverage became available on 9/1 about 400 people have enrolled in the program, and federal subsidies will allow for about 5,000 to be covered. [...]
Ohio Health Insurance Quotes: Affordable
According to the article “Ohio’s High-Risk Health Insurance Pool Will Begin Taking Applications on Aug 1″ by Diane Suchetka on Cleveland.com, Ohio residents who have been unable to get affordable health insurance quotes because of pre-existing conditions will be able to get coverage as of September 1. To help with Ohio health insurance, Ohio will [...]
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 [...]
SummaCare House Calls Program
Akron Ohio based Summacare is going old-school by bringing back an old fashioned health care tradition and will be once again making house calls. The Summacare House Call Program will be made available to select members of their traditional Medicare health plans in addition to members of their Medicare managed care products. As part of [...]
Cheaper Alternative to COBRA
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 [...]
