Health Insurance – Page 49 – Healthy Skeptic

Feb 11 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Five of the state’s largest private insurers plan to offer doctors and hospitals the ability to use a single Web portal to check a patient’s coverage and track claims

Feb 09 2010

New York Times

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HHS Secretary demanded specifics in a sternly-worded letter Monday, saying the insurer has ”a responsibility to provide a detailed justification for these rate increases.”

Feb 08 2010

amednews.com

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Capitation, largely abandoned in favor of fee-for-service payments to physicians and hospitals, could be making a comeback in Pennsylvania

Feb 08 2010

Bloomberg

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Insurers, drugmakers and hospitals will likely slash costs and merge companies to maneuver through a U.S. health-care landscape

Feb 08 2010

LA Times

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California’s largest for-profit health insurer is moving to dramatically raise rates for customers with individual policies

Feb 05 2010

KaiserHealthNews

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Republicans are touting their own remedies, including allowing Americans to buy health coverage across state lines

Feb 04 2010

Value-Based Insurance Plan Design

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Value-based insurance design attempts to use cost-sharing to maximize use of health services that lead to good health outcomes. Two recent analyses demonstrate that cost-sharing features of health care coverage…

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Feb 03 2010

Wall Street Journal

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House Democrats plan to revive a sliver of the legislation as soon as next week that would repeal an antitrust exemption for insurance companies

Jan 28 2010

Reuters

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Older people who have higher co-payments are more likely to end up in the hospital, making their treatment more costly, according to U.S. study

Jan 28 2010

Bloomberg

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CEO of WellPoint Inc., the biggest U.S. health insurer by enrollment, said premiums will rise if forced to cover people with pre-existing conditions

Jan 25 2010

New York Times

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A major hospital chain and one of the nation’s largest insurance companies are locked in a struggle over control of treatment and costs that could have broad ramifications for millions

Jan 22 2010

New York Times

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The absence of a forced change, insurers still face the challenge of selling a product that is increasingly out of reach for more Americans

Jan 22 2010

Employers’ Views of Health Insurers

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PriceWaterhouseCoopers releases a survey on large and small employers' perspective on their health insurers. The results show increasing dissatisfaction along several dimensions, with minor improvement on only one or two.…

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Jan 20 2010

Washington Times

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Lawmakers in 30 states are pressing for constitutional amendments to exempt individuals from the requirement to purchase health care

Jan 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Disability-insurance benefits are getting harder to come by—and that’s putting more pressure on consumers to purchase their own coverage

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