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Private health insurers agree to revise pricing, eligibility for pre-existing conditions
Two leading health insurance groups, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) arguably made an effort to slow momentum for a government run health plan that... Read more...
Small businesses, health insurers team to make coverage affordable
Last Friday, the health insurance industry and lobbies for small businesses reached an agreement that reportedly will make coverage more affordable. After years of friction, leading health insurance... Read more...
Cost-shifting increases family spending by almost $1,800 annually
Most of the time, you hear about how hospitals are struggling lately, many of them because they are getting more uninsured patients, which doesn't help them close the gap on the Medicare and Medicaid... Read more...
AHIP conditionally endorses coverage for pre-existing conditions
In a highly significant move, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has endorsed guaranteed coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions--as long as federal authorities require everyone to... Read more...
Health plan association backs monitoring agency
How often do you see the insurance industry petition the government to set up another federal agency? Well, in this case, this most unlikely of events has actually occurred. America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the association representing health insurers, has asked Congress to create an agency dedicated to comparing the effectiveness of existing medical treatments, drugs and devices with new ones. (It would be intriguing to see whether some doctors' instincts are correct that snazzy …
... Read more...Strange bedfellows get together on health reform
Two years after the odd couple of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich teamed up to tout electronic health records, more unusual groupings are forming in Washington. The Business Roundtable, representing major corporations, is getting together with organized labor--namely the Service Employees International Union--to launch "Divided We Fail," a campaign to push for broad-based-and unspecified-healthcare reform.
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... Read more...Insurers create PHR model
Perhaps in counter to a recent power grab by large employers, health insurance industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association of America have released their own model for a portable personal health record. The new standards call for creating a Web-based personal health records--maintained, not surprisingly, by insurers--that are transportable from one insurance plan to another with little trouble. The records will include …
... Read more...Insurers vigorously defend CDHPs
In recent weeks, various studies citing stats on CDHPs have hit the press, some favorable and others criticizing the plans' impact on patients. But few have had the impact of the CDHP study just released by the Employee Benefits Research Institute and the Commonwealth Fund. The EBRI/CF study, which seems to have touched a nerve, found that many of the consumers insured by CDHPs …
... Read more...Press Release: HSAs Receive a Major Opportunity From Congress
Press Release: HSAs Receive a Major Opportunity From Congress
... Read more...Press Release: Setting the Record Straight on Consumer Directed Health Plans
Press Release: Setting the Record Straight on Consumer Directed Health Plans
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