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Posts Tagged ‘Hoffman Estates’
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Yahoo Finance reports:
“Health insurer Aetna is already giving its workers free Apple Watches (plus a handful of regular customers), but it now looks ready to expand those bonuses to everyone. CNBCsources understand that Aetna is in talks with Apple to offer a free or discounted Watch as a perk to all eligible customers — no small number when Aetna covers 23 million people. It’s not certain what the deal would look like, but Aetna would like to hand out wristwear early in 2018.
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Tags: health, Hebron, Herbron, Highland Park, Hillside, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Hospital, IL, insurance, Will
Posted in Family Health Insurance | Comments Off on Aetna may offer customers a free Apple Watch as a perk
Monday, October 31st, 2016
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Though full details won’t be released until later this month, some information is starting to trickle out about what Illinois residents will and won’t find when they shop for health insurance on the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, bronze plan, Chicago, Glendale, Glendale Heights, Government, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Individuals, Medicare, Will, Winfield
Posted in 2017 Open Enrollment | Comments Off on What will you see on Obamacare exchange for 2017? Details start to emerge
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Business Wire reports:
“Cigna (NYSE: CI), already a leading provider of employer-sponsored group health plans in Illinois and across the United States, is introducing new individual and family medical plans in the Chicago area, both on and off the federal public marketplace. The new plans, called Cigna Connect, will take effect on January 1, 2017.
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Tags: Chicago, Cigna, DuPage, employees, enrollment, exchange, Glendale Heights, group health plans, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Hospital, Illinois, Individuals, Will
Posted in 2017 Open Enrollment | Comments Off on Cigna to Offer Individual and Family Plans in Chicago Area
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
AHIP reports:
“States are facing a shortage of physicians in primary care, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery, according to a new AHIP data brief. This analysis looked at the ratio of these physicians to the population and found several U.S. states currently have physician supply rates that fall well below the national average.
According to the data brief, these provider shortfalls may be even more severe in rural areas. While close to a quarter of Americans live in rural areas, only 10 percent of physicians practice in those geographies. For example, most surgeons in Idaho are practicing in urban areas (25 per 100,000 urban population) rather than in rural areas (14 per 100,000 rural population).
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Tags: Deer Park, Deerfield, doctors, health, health plan, Highland Park, Hillside, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Hospital
Posted in Health Care .gov, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on New Data Brief Finds Physician Shortages Lead to Network Adequacy Challenges
Monday, January 11th, 2016
California Healthline Reports:
“On Friday, CMS released a proposed rule that would require minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, Modern Healthcare reports.
Proposed Rule’s Network Standards
Under the rule, states would be required to implement CMS-approved quantitative measures to ensure that individuals with exchange plans have adequate access to health care providers. States could either:
- Adopt default network adequacy standards set by CMS; or
- Draft their own network adequacy standards and submit them for HHS approval.
Such standards could measure a plan’s network adequacy based on policyholders’ maximum travel distances and times to access providers. According to CMS, minimum adequacy standards for the plans will be determined at a later date. HHS would then notify insurers of the standards in each state (Herman/Dickson, Modern Healthcare, 11/20). (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News, Open Enrollment | Comments Off on CMS Proposes Health Insurance Exchange Changes for 2017
Monday, January 11th, 2016
Investors Business Daily Reports:
“Socialist Medicine: Canadians love their hockey and have historically been happy with their government-run health care system. Hockey is thriving. The country’s health care system, though, is a wreck and getting worse.
It could be said the words “Canada” and “health care” really don’t go together because some Canadians never make it to the doctor.
Too many die untreated due to extended wait times to see a doctor, and those wait times have increased again this year. They are now almost twice as long as they were in 1993, the year Hillary Clinton tried to force government health care on Americans. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Family Health Insurance, Health Insurance News, Heath Care Costs | Comments Off on Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Yahoo News reports:
“The Obama administration on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to control health costs by moving the $2.9 trillion U.S. health systems away from costly fee-for-service medicine, beginning with the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled.
By the end of 2018, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell told reporters that 50 percent of traditional Medicare’s $362 billion in annual payments would go to doctors, hospitals and other providers that participate in alternative payment models which emphasize cost containment and quality of care.
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Tags: doctors, Employers, Government, Health and Human Services, High deductible health plan, Highland Park, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Hospital, human resources, Medicaid, medicaid programs, Medicare
Posted in Medicaid | Comments Off on U.S. government unveils goal to move Medicare away from fee-for-service
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Forbes reports:
“Reports from consulting firms don’t normally make national news. Then again, most such reports don’t predict the downfall of the American health care system.
Earlier this month, the consulting group McKinsey projected that tens of millions of Americans could find themselves without the health coverage they now get through their employers.
McKinsey is only the latest organization to make a mockery of President Obama’s solemn promise to Americans that “[i]f you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
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Tags: exchange, Hampshire, Hanover Park, Harvard, Hebron, Herbron, Highland Park, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Hospital, Huntley, Individuals, requirements, small businesses
Posted in Group Health Insurance | Comments Off on Will employer-sponsored health insurance survive?
Friday, August 1st, 2014
Chicago Health Care Daily reports:
” A $1,000-per-pill drug that insurers are reluctant to pay for has quickly become the treatment of choice for a liver-wasting viral disease that affects more than 3 million Americans.
In less than six months, prescriptions for Sovaldi have eclipsed all other hepatitis C pills combined, according to new data from IMS Health. The prospect of a real cure, with fewer nasty side effects, is enticing thousands of patients to get treated for the first time.
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Tags: 2015, Chicago, Cook County, Fox Valley, health insurance, Hebron, Herbron, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Medicaid, medicaid programs
Posted in Health Reform, Heath Care Costs | Comments Off on This $1,000 pill is now the hepatitis C treatment of choice
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Digital Journal reports:
“While the Affordable Care Act is designed to reduce cost and increase access to health insurance, many U.S. citizens still are uninsured and underserved due to obstacles not based on cost, such as technical problems and lack of information from health insurance companies and health exchanges, according to the inaugural J.D. Power 2014 Health Insurance Marketplace Shopper StudySM released today.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Hampshire, Hanover Park, Harvard, Harwood Heights, health insurance marketplace, Hoffman Estates, Holiday Hills, Huntley, insurance industry, Marketplace, Navigator, premiums, the affordable care act
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on J.D. Power Reports: The Uninsured Remain Underserved by Health Exchanges, As Many Continue to Struggle to Enroll in Healthcare Coverage
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