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Humana One Offers Coverage In Health Insurance Exchange
Humana has long been in the business of managed care and is focused on moving into 2014 with huge participation in the state health insurance exchanges. Humana currently insures more than five million Medicare recipients with Medicare advantage plans. Little did Humana know this would be excellent practice for developing their individual […]
Obamacare Survival Guide Review and Information
If you like reading out of date information, the new book Obamacare 911 Survival Guide is the book for you! Before I became a health insurance agent, I used to work in publishing at McGraw-Hill. And long story short, anything in book form is not up-to-date information. Furthermore, Healthcare Reform is still […]
Cigna offers insurance in limited Health Exchange Markets
Cigna will offer health insurance in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas health exchanges in 2014. However, Cigna currently offers individual and family plans in these states plus California, Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. So this is a 50% reduction for Cigna. It is expected other carriers like […]
What Has Health Care Reform Done
Healthcare reform passed over two years ago and many Americans are scratching their heads trying to figure out how it has helped them. Most Americans (more than 250 million) have health insurance coverage through their employer or through Medicaid or Medicare, about 40 million or so are uninsured, and around […]
Health Care Costs Increase 7.3 Percent In 1 Year
Last week, Milliman released its annual Milliman Medical Index, and it shows that the average American family’s medical costs have doubled in less than nine years and increased 7.3 percent from 2010 to 2011. The results also show that hospital spending, which accounts for 48 percent of total health care […]
States Resisting Health Insurance Overhaul
ARIZONA: A bill that would require Arizona health insurance carriers to provide written claim reports to plan sponsors up to twice a year, upon request, has been favorably amended in the House to make compliance less onerous. Modeled after a Texas law enacted in 2007, the bill originally required the […]
Health Insurance Reform State Changes April
Governor Jan Brewer has signed a state budget that includes $1.1 billion in spending cuts and the elimination of programs that Democratic legislators say will have a disproportionate impact on the poor and children of the state. The budget eliminates $385 million from the Arizona Health Insurance Cost Containment System […]
Texas Health Insurance Exchange
Rep. John Zerwas, the Republican legislator who has filed legislation to implement a key element of federal health care reform, said his bill may be permanently stuck. Zerwas proposed establishing a Texas health insurance exchange not because he approves of federal health reform but because he fears the federal government […]
Oklahoma Health Insurance Exchange
Gov. Mary Fallin is defending her efforts to create an Oklahoma health insurance exchange for uninsured Oklahoma residents, explaining that if the state does not have an exchange in place by 2013 the federal government will step in and create its own. Fallin discussed her support for legislation to help […]
New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange
Governor Susana Martinez has two PPACA-related bills on her desk. The legislature passed an New Mexico health insurance exchange bill that would create a nonprofit public corporation with the ability to selectively contract with health plans. Throughout the legislative session, the governor expressed concerns about the direction the bill was […]
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