Nov. 3, 2016 | Jeffrey Young WASHINGTON ― The share of Americans who don’t have health coverage fell below 9 percent during the first half of this year, the lowest percentage ever recorded, according to survey results published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. The uninsured rate held steady from the…
Oct. 31, 2016 | Julie Appleby/Kaiser Health News Money With open enrollment set to begin tomorrow, some health insurance brokers are already fielding questions about coverage and whether existing plans will still be available next year. For an increasing number of brokers, there’s also another question: Will they get paid? Some insurers—including Cigna and Aetna—will…
October 14, 2016| By Michelle Andrews The incredible shrinking provider network is nothing new in marketplace plans. One way insurers have kept premiums in check on the individual market is by reducing the number of providers available in a plan’s network. Earlier this year, the federal government said that it would introduce a tool this…
As if you didn’t have enough reasons to sell UnitedHealthcare this upcoming Annual Enrollment Period (AEP), here’s another one! UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage (MA) members will have in-network access to Mercy Hospital Springfield effective January 1, 2017. Plans Accepted AARP® MedicareComplete® Plan 2: H2802-030 AARP® MedicareComplete® Plan 1: H2802-031 Care Improvement Plus® Medicare Advantage: R3444-012 The…
September 19th 2016 By: | Michael Gerson In the event of a victory by Donald Trump in November, political analysis will take on a forensic cast. How did establishment politics — first in the GOP primaries, then in a national electorate — come to die? Privately, Democrats would regret their selection of one of the…
September 12th, 2016 | By: Mary Beth Franklin Although we are still a month away from an official announcement about the size of the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits in 2017, the latest Social Security Trustees report projects a 0.2% increase in benefits next year. That would boost the average Social Security…
August 24th, 2016 | By: Harris Meyer The hand-wringing over insurer pullouts and premium spikes in the Affordable Care Act exchanges is growing frantic since Aetna announced last week it would exit from the marketplaces in 11 of the 15 states where it currently sells plans. UnitedHealthcare and Humana previously had retreated from the exchanges,…
August, 22nd 2016 | By: Bob Bryan Pinal County, Arizona, right next to Phoenix, was founded in 1875 and is home to roughly 400,000 people. It’s also the county that Obamacare forgot. After Aetna’s announcement that it will roll back 70% of its offerings in public exchanges, Pinal County appears to be the only county…
