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Aetna Introduces New Chicagoland Plan for Small Businesses
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aetna (NYSE: AET) is introducing a health insurance plan with the goal of helping small businesses in under-served communities offer health insurance to their employees for the first time ever. Called the Aetna Illinois Community Plan, it is...
Health-Care Outlays Climb at Slowest Rate in Years
Health-care spending grew at its lowest rate in nearly a decade in 2007, but it continued to swallow an ever-bigger portion of U.S. gross domestic product and family budgets, a new federal study shows. Restrained by a sharply slower growth in prescription-drug...
Spending Rise for Health Care and Prescription Drugs Slows
NY Times — National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963, the government reported Monday. But other types of health spending rose at a brisk pace, pushing the...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois introduces new ID card to individual plans
Effective January 2009, a redesigned Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois ID card will be issued to Individual Markets members. The redesigned card is the result of new Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association guidelines to standardize ID cards among Blues plans. The...
“Do you have health insurance?”
Here is a cool video asking people on the street about their health insurance and how they feel about the current system.
Small Business Struggle to Provide Health Insurance
Here is a great video from PBS that explains the problems of the current health insurance system. PBS - Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Insurance
Aetna Expanding Medicare Advantage Plans for Cook County
Medicare beneficiaries in Cook County now have access to almost twice as many hospitals and physicians compared with last year through two types of Aetna Medicare Advantage plan options - the Aetna Golden Medicare Plan® (HMO) and the Aetna Golden ChoiceSM Plan (PPO)....
Humana now offers a 24 Hour Coverage Rider to owners not eligible for Workers Compensation
Humana is now offering a 24 hour coverage rider which replaces coverage for owners, officers, partners that are not eligible for Workers Compensation coverage. If the enrollment in the 24 Hour Coverage rider is less than 50% of the total group population, then there...
Aetna now allows domestic partner coverage in Illinois
Effective January 1, 2009, the following changes occurred with regard to domestic partner coverage with Aetna: Aetna small group health insurance plans will allow domestic partner coverage in Illinois, although it is not state mandated. Coverage is available to...
Humana One Product Updates
HumanaOne® and Rush Health Systems have renegotiated their contract. Rush Health Systems will continue to be a part of the Humana networks effective 1/1/09. There will be no disruption in network coverage for existing members. More information to follow at a later...