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We’ve all been there. You try and pop a wheelie to impress your girlfriend and instead fall off your bike and bust your head. Or, perhaps you wake up in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in your side and a raging fever. A dull knife and a slippery onion. Black ice. Sometimes, you don’t even remember what [...]
Filed under: Accountability, Affordable, Consumer Assistance, Insurance reform, Medical debt, Underinsured | Tagged: hospital care, insurance, medical bills | Comments Off
PBS Newshour had a great little segment last night on a project out of Colorodo aimed at improving health among the Latino population. This is done by delivering public health messages via telenovelas. For those of you who may not have grown up watching Univision or Telemundo, telenovelas are basically like soap operas, but way better. They have [...]
Filed under: Consumer Assistance, Immigrants, Medical debt, Underinsured, Women, young adult | Tagged: cool stuff, Immigrants, insurance, women's health | Comments Off
With the idea that all people deserve quality, affordable health care now such a partisan issue in the presidential race, it’s no wonder the media has been flooded with articles, editorials, polls and research on the topic. You could easily read one thing telling you Americans love health reform and then turn around and see another saying Americans hate health reform, with both [...]
Filed under: ACA, Federal health reform, Insurance reform | Tagged: ACA, attacks on health reform, election 2012, Federal health reform, insurance | Comments Off
This morning, HCFANY members held a press conference in Albany to release two new reports that we’ve put together to highlight just how New Yorkers are being helped by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Click here to read the press release. See, it turns out that a lot of people out there actually think that the [...]
Filed under: ACA, Affordable, Federal health reform | Tagged: ACA, Federal health reform, insurance, Insurance Exchange | Comments Off
Well, ThanksObamacare.org officially wins this blogger’s vote for coolest web feature of the week. They’ve put together a nifty little game, modeled after the old game of Life only without the little cars, that walks you through your life at different stages and lets you choose if you want to proceed with and without Obamacare. For each [...]
Filed under: ACA, Employer Sponsored Health Insurance, Insurance reform, Uninsured, Women, young adult | Tagged: ACA, Federal health reform, insurance, Obamacare, small business | Comments Off
This week, three different women’s stories have been making the rounds throughout HCFANY’s social media networks, so I thought I’d share them with the blogger world as well. The first story comes from Baltimore, where a bride named Meredith Gould decided to put the money her wedding guests are willing gift her to good use by putting health insurance [...]
Filed under: ACA, New York State Politics, Uninsured, Women | Tagged: ACA, Implementation, insurance, women's health | Comments Off
Just to keep folks in the loop, in a previous post we had talked about medical-loss ratios (MLR) and how many of those in the insurance agent and broker community had been pushing to shift broker and agent commissions from the “administrative” side of the MLR calculation to the “patient care” side. The issue was [...]
Filed under: ACA, Insurance reform | Tagged: brokers, insurance, medical loss ratio | Comments Off
Medical loss ratios (MLR) are all the buzz at the moment in the insurance world, and some folks may have noticed little snippets seeping into the mainstream media as of late. So, what is this all about and what’s the big deal? Well, under the health reform law, health insurance companies are required to disclose detailed information on how [...]
Filed under: ACA, Employer Sponsored Health Insurance, Federal health reform, Insurance reform, Premiums | Tagged: brokers, insurance, medical loss ratio | Comments Off
As promised, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DOFS) has posted copies of every health insurer’s rate applications on it’s website. This is really a huge step in bringing transparency and accountability to the whole insurance rate review process, and for that we are extremely grateful. The downside (and this is really no surprise)…it ain’t [...]
Filed under: Accountability, Insurance reform, Premiums | Tagged: insurance, insurance rate review, prior approval | Comments Off
Hooray for our tax dollars at work! Governor Cuomo announced yesterday that 11 of New York’s insurance plans would have to pay back $114.5 million to 573,748 New Yorkers who were overcharged for health insurance premiums based on a legal requirement that says that they have to spend at least 82 cents of every dollar on medical care versus [...]
Filed under: Accountability, Governor Cuomo, Insurance reform, Premiums | Tagged: insurance, prior approval | 1 Comment »
