A new health insurance plan being offered by HealthPartners will be able to cover individuals through counseling programs and non-medical related situations. The new policy, called Compass, has been created as a result of an increasing amount of people through out the country purchasing their own health plans. The Member Assistance Program, or MAP, will work...
The URAC, a Washington, DC based healthcare accreditation organization has awarded full accreditation for disease management to health net Federal services, LLC. You are AC establishes quality standards for the healthcare industry. It establishes and measures key industry standards for healthcare management and improvements. They also work for consumer protections. Health net Federal services...
In California, Gov. Brown has signed 2 bills that ensure maternity services will be covered by health insurers. These protective measures will help expectant mothers and their children. Each state handles maternity services and insurance claim separately. But, in the state of California, pregnant women will be able to receive entrance coverage for the...
Kingstone companies Incorporated( NASDAQ: KINS) announced that insurance company was experiencing growth in the 3rd quarter. However, there were some losses caused by tropical storm Irene. These losses equaled $1.7 million. The impact on the 3rd quarter financial statements, which includes net losses and a reduction to contingent ceding commissions, will total $1,500,000, before...
Aetna will be offering a special plan for individuals and families connected to the National Association for the Self-Employed. These plans will be available to these members through NaseCare. This is an organization that provides high-quality and affordable healthcare options to individuals, families, self-employed, and small business owners. Aetna (NYSE:AET) will be offering a...
CIGNA (NYSE:CI) will be offering a free monthly drug and alcohol awareness series. They will be providing a series of seminars for individuals to better understand the physical, mental and emotional signs of people dealing with substance abuse. These programs will have a special emphasis on child and teen substance abuse. There’ll be monthly...
Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated (NYSE:WMT), and Humana Incorporated (NYSE:HUM) are announcing that they will be offering a Medicare part D prescription drug plan to provide significant savings on monthly plan premiums. Also, prescription medicine co-payments and call shares for Medicare beneficiaries will see affordable costs. Over 1 million seniors and people with disabilities have enrolled...
On September 30, 2011, Aetna (NYSE:AET) had announced that they will be partnering with Stony Brook University Hospital for a new three-year network agreement that will keep the hospital as a preferred, in network provider for members who participate in commercial health plans with Aetna insurance. Senior vice president, Dave Kobus, stated that he...
Many insurance companies have Facebook pages. Unmetric, the social media benchmarking and competitive intelligence company has analyzed the Facebook numbers of 15 leading US insurance companies over a one-month period which ended September 29, 2011. There are many popular Facebook pages including GEICO, New York Life insurance Company, Farmers, State Farm and many others....