Jerry Lynott in the Times-Leader reports that Geisinger Health Plan has filed requests to increase its rates with the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance. Geisinger wants to raise its rates by 5.5% for employers with less than 51 health care subscribers, and 7.1% for groups with more than 51 members. The rate increases will impact about [...]
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Highmark to open health insurance stores
In an interesting move, Highmark Blue Shield, has announced their plans to open two retail health insurance stores in Pennsylvania offering individual health insurance, as well as small business health plans, and senior health plans. The stores called Highmark Direct will open in Pittsburgh and Mechanicsburg in March of 2009. More information about Pennsylvania health [...]
Advantra in Top 20 of U.S. Health Care Plans
A recent press release from HealthAmerica has announced that Advantra, the HealthAmerica Medicare Advantage plan, is ranked among the top 20 best Medicare and commercial health care plans in the 2008 “America’s Best Health Plans” list. Advantra was ranked #18 out of over 200 plans. The survey was conducted by U.S. News & World Report [...]
Top Pennsylvania Health Plans
Posting the top Pennsylvania Health Plans (as ranked by US News and World Report in Conjunction with NCQA) is the 6th state in the series here at healthinsurancesort.com. Previous state rankings have been posted for the following midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. According to the 2008 rankings: the top Pennsylvania health insurance plans [...]
Pennsylvania Medicare Advantage Plans
Mark Farrah wrote a nice report on the Medicare Advantage marketplace in Pennsylvania. In summary he found that the 30 health insurers offering Medicare Advantage Plans in PA had a 37% market penetration, one of the highest in the country. Of the 30 health insurers, more than 20 were based in PA, including three separate [...]
