The Covered California Milliman study suggests that there might be as much as a 15% difference from the statewide average health insurance rate depending on a person’s location.
Health Insurance
Posts related to health insurance for individuals, families, small groups, enrollment, eligibility in California, plans, coverage, benefits.
Are Medicare Advantage Plans Threatened by Reform?
It was an urgent plea by an insurance company that I had to act now to save Medicare Advantage Plans.
Will Obamacare become a paperwork nightmare?
Will the new healthcare reform insurance application (aka Obamacare) become a bureaucratic paperwork nightmare?
Covered California Assister Program starts to take shape
California’s developing health insurance exchange, Covered California, presented two webinars recently to review the streamline application process and budding Assister Program to help residents sign up for health insurance through the new state exchange.
Finding a doctor to match your health insurance
The obstacle in matching your health insurance to a doctor is that health insurance companies contract with physician groups and hospitals. These contracts include negotiated prices for a variety of procedures, tests and office visits.
Office visit, out patient and lab fee costs from Kaiser Northern California
It was nice to see that Kaiser of Northern California has put out an easy to read fee schedule for different office visits, procedures and lab tests.
Covered California health exchange may fail competition test
With the release of the Covered California Standard Benefit Plans and the Cost Estimator on the website, health insurance plans through California’s health insurance exchange may prove to be unaffordable for what consumers expect.
Wellpoint opposes healthcare reform with sham Health Action Network website
The Health Action Network website is a sham and Wellpoint, Inc. should be ashamed of surreptitiously promoting it to Anthem Blue Cross members.
Anthem Blue Cross Adds Shingles Vaccine to Pharmacy Coverage
I now know that I have been having outbreaks of the shingles on my legs these past couple of years.
Families in Small Group Employer Plans May Save Money under ACA
There is the possibility that under the health insurance exchange and the construction of the new individual plans we could see premium rates less than what is being quoted today.
