A private insurance exchange is the newest lever for employers trying to get a handle on health care coverage. Highmark Health Services on Friday announced it is expanding its closed network product into West Virginia and Delaware in January. Private exchanges, also...
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eHealth Offers WellCare Medicare Plans Online and by Phone
The nation's first and largest private online health insurance exchange,eHealth, Inc, is offering Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) from WellCare Health Plans, Inc. on its online marketplaces and now also through telephonic...
Blue Cross wins key ruling in antitrust case
A federal judge dismissed the heart of a surgical center's antitrust suit against Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois and a downstate hospital network in a case that challenges a common insurance payment practice. Blue Cross, the largest health insurance carrier in...
Highmark chief discusses health care transformation
A health insurance company CEO addressed the state Chamber of Commerce's business summit on Thursday at The Greenbrier, where he talked about the need to transform health care but also the uncertainty around changes to federal health-care law. William Winkenwerder,...
UPMC enlists employees in latest Highmark fight
As public criticism grows about its pending divorce from Highmark Health Services, UPMC is asking thousands of its employees to campaign against legislation that could force it to renew reimbursement contracts with the insurer. Mustering employees to lobby lawmakers...
Rhode Island health exchange releases plan rates and details
Rhode Island's state-run health benefits marketplace released the monthly premiums Tuesday for the 28 plans it will offer for individuals and small businesses under the federal health care overhaul. HealthSource RI Director Christine Ferguson released the rates for...
BlueCross Exits Utah’s Small Business Exchange
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah has dropped out of the state's small business health insurance Marketplace (or Exchange), known as Avenue H. Three carriers will participate, according to Steve Gooch, a spokesman for Avenue H: United Healthcare, SelectHealth, and...
Last Minute Escape from Exchanges for Major Insurers
With one month left before Obamacare health plans flood the insurance market via state exchanges, top companies are backing out of the new arrangement. United, Blue Cross, Aetna and Humana have each decided against participating in the government-run marketplace, in a...
Judge gives Highmark, UPMC a week to file notices regarding settlement agreement
U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti on Tuesday gave Highmark Inc. and UPMC a week to each file a notice as to who they believe has the authority to enforce a settlement agreement brokered by Gov. Tom Corbett. UPMC wants Conti to order Highmark to drop the antitrust...
West Virginia CHIP eliminates enrollment waiting period
A waiting period for enrollment in West Virginia's Children's Health Insurance Program has been eliminated. The Children's Health Insurance Agency board voted Wednesday to eliminate the 90-day waiting period prior for enrollment in the program for West Virginia...
Medical Society knocks Highmark-UPMC war
The Highmark-UPMC ad war is tarnishing the reputations of both institutions, diverting dollars that would be better spent on health care, according to the president of the Allegheny County Medical Society. “The money that a nonprofit spends on advertising is money not...
Highmark to expand Community Blue
Health insurance giant Highmark Inc. will expand its Community Blue limited network plan to 21 counties in central and eastern Pennsylvania starting Jan. 1, the company announced Friday. Community Blue Premier Flex will be offered to group customers and the plan...