Each state has their own structure for providing health insurance to children. There are many updates throughout the nation for 2012, and it’s important you know how you may be affected if your child needs health insurance protection. ”Child-only” plans are individual policies which are offered to children 18 and under with no guardian listed [...]
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Iowa Health Insurance May Face Big Rate Increase
Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield has proposed a 9.4% health insurance rate increase for residents purchasing Iowa health insurance. This has some of the 86,000 policyholders up in arms according to Tony Leys article “Wellmark Customers Grill Executive Over Premium Increase” found on DesMoinesRegister.com. It makes sense that these policyholders would be frustrated with another rate [...]
SeniorBlue Select
Wellmark recently announced that their Medicare supplement plan SeniorBlue Select would be discontinued as of Dec 31. Nearly 4,000 members are enrolled in the plan that supplements Medicare benefits. SeniorBlue Select was closed to new business about three years ago, but about 3,900 members remain on the books. The plan was popular because it offered [...]
Individual and Family Health Plans
A recent report released by eHealthinsurance.com illustrates the relative affordability of individual health insurance plans across numerous dimensions, as well as a breakdown of what types of individual health insurance policies have been purchased most frequently. Some of the findings in the report include: The average monthly premium for an individual health insurance policy was [...]
Top Rated Health Plans in HeartLand
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 [...]
Health Insurance Coverage for Iowa Children
The Iowa house passed a stripped down version of health insurance reform that was passed by the Senate in March. The parts of the bill that passed the Senate that were carved out were 1) the authorization for small businesses and non-profits to buy into the government health plan and 2) a provision that to [...]
