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Posts Tagged ‘Kaneville’
Monday, May 20th, 2019
The LA Times reports:
“Soaring deductibles and medical bills are pushing millions of American families to the breaking point, fueling an affordability crisis that is pulling in middle-class households with health insurance as well as the poor and uninsured.
In the last 12 years, annual deductibles in job-based health plans have nearly quadrupled and now average more than $1,300.
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Tags: 2019, Costs, deductibles, doctors, enroll, health, health insurance, health plan, IL, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Kildeer, Lafox
Posted in Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Applies to: Group Markets
Learn about the revisions to the drug list for members with prescription drug benefits administered by Prime Therapeutics®.
Drug List Changes
Based on the availability of new prescription medications and Prime’s National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee’s review of changes in the pharmaceuticals market, some revisions and/or exclusions will be made to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) drug lists, effective July 1, 2019. Changes by drug list are listed on the chart links below.
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Tags: Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, HMO, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County
Posted in Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Comments Off on Pharmacy Program Quarterly Update: Changes Effective July 1, 2019
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Forbes.com reports:
“As if hospitals and health systems didn’t have enough emerging threats with big well capitalized publicly-traded insurance companies and drugstore chains developing primary care clinics and urgent care centers in their backyards.
Now come the nation’s largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans that dominate big diverse markets like Florida, Illinois, Texas and New Jersey. These Blues plans are backed by their own financing, venture capital funds and primary care partners looking to expand doctor offices, urgent care and health centers in communities across the country. (more…)
Tags: Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Costs, doctors, enroll, health care system, health plan, Hospital, hospitals, Illinois, insurance, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall
Posted in Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Why Hospitals Should Fear Blue Cross Primary Care Centers
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
CNBC reports:
A federal judge in Texas ruled on Friday the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, potentially threatening health-care coverage for millions of Americans and setting up a new legal showdown over former President Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, barack obama, health insurance marketplace, individual, Individual Mandate, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Patient Protection
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on The Affordable Care Act is ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, may set up a new showdown at the Supreme Court
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
CMS Reports:
“Background
The Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services published a proposed rule to consider allowing short-term, limited-duration insurance to cover longer periods and be renewed by the consumer on February 21, 2018 in response to both stakeholder input in the Request for Information “Reducing Regulatory Burdens Imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act & Improving Healthcare Choices to Empower Patients,” as well as Executive Order 13813 entitled “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States.”
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, health insurance coverage, individual health insurance, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, short term insurance
Posted in Short Term Insurance | Comments Off on Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance Final Rule
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Yahoo Finance reports:
“Welcome to Fix My Finances, a Yahoo Finance personal finance series. Each episode, we take a look at one viewer’s financial state of affairs and offer advice, insight and information on a variety of issues, including how to save more, spend less and pay off lingering debt.
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Tags: ACA, ACA requirements, Affordable Care Act, health insurance marketplace, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Kildeer, Lafox, Lake, Lake County, special enrollment
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on Most common questions about ACA insurance
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Yahoo Beauty reports:
“If you’re looking forward to getting Medicare because you think this health insurance for seniors will provide comprehensive coverage, you may end up disappointed. Studies have shown seniors with high-prescription drug needs could incur as much as $350,000 in out-of-pocket spending on healthcare during retirement, even with both Medicare and a supplementary Medigap policy.
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Tags: Inverness, IRS, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, long-term, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Medigap, premiums, seniors, SHOP
Posted in Health Care .gov, Medicare | Comments Off on 7 Healthcare Expenses Medicare Won’t Pay For — The Motley Fool
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Forbes reports:
“Next time you run into someone who minimizes the problems with Obamacare, I want you to introduce them to Fay. She’s a reasonably healthy 60 year old grandmother living in Fayette County, Illinois and earns about 450% of the federal poverty level ($53,460) working for a small employer that does not provide her with health insurance. Right now, if she wants the second lowest silver plan in her area, she needs to pay 28% of her pre-tax income in order to get it — $1,247 per month. Fay just doesn’t have that kind of money and thus lives in fear of medical bankruptcy should something go wrong.
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Tags: deductibles, Health insurance exchange, health insurance premiums, Individuals, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Kildeer, Lafox, Lake, Lake County, Lake in the Hills, Lake View, Lakemoor, Lakewood, Lincoln Park, Lincolnwood, Long Grove, ObamaCare, Obamacare regulation
Posted in Obamacare | Comments Off on Where Obamacare Has Become Unaffordable, Short Term Health Insurance Can Help
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Crain’s Chicago Business reports:
“The state budget stalemate, which has stretched on for nearly two years, is putting lives on the line, according to emotional testimony out of the Illinois House yesterday.
That’s because the state’s now $12.6 billion backlog also includes months and months of unpaid medical bills on behalf of state workers and retirees. At last count, the state owed $3.5 billion in medical bills for its employees, according to a spokesman for the Illinois comptroller. In early March, a dental lobbying group said dentists who treat state employees were owed a collective $174 million.
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Tags: Chicago, employees, health, Illinois, insurance, Inverness, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, premiums
Posted in Health Insurance News, Illinois Health Insurance | Comments Off on Illinois’ stack of unpaid medical bills now reaches $3.5 billion
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
According to News Max Finance:
” Well, the hammer has fallen: The largest health insurer in the U.S. has started pulling out of select Obamacare exchanges.
Five months ago UnitedHealth, which had been singing sunny songs to investors about its bright future on the exchanges, abruptly began crooning the blues. In an earnings call barely a month after executives assured investors that all was going swimmingly, they confessed that they were losing a ton of money on their Obamacare policies and described a pattern that sounded as if consumers were gaming the system — signing up for a few months, using a ton of services, and then canceling their policies. If this continued, they said, they would have no choice but to pull out of the exchange business. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Exchange, Health Insurance News, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Obamacare Encounters Another Bump in the Road
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