Medical Insurance

The financial burden Americans face paying out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs has declined, although prescription costs remain a significant challenge for people with lower incomes and those with public insurance, according to a new RAND Corporation study... […]

How can insurers justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year on "orphan drugs" - extremely expensive medications for rare conditions that are mostly chronic and life-threatening - when this money could provide greater overall health benefit if spread out among many other patients? Those spending decisions reflect the […]

There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them. Insurance companies know this. Patients who walk out may know this. But many physicians, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medici […]

One in ten Canadians cannot afford to take their prescription drugs as directed, according to an analysis by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. The study, published in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) is the first to examine the relationship between drug insurance and the use of prescription drug […]

Insurance status doesn't affect the quantity (or value) of imaging services received by patients in a hospital, in-patient setting, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Approximately 51 million Americans, or 16.7 percent of the population, were without health insurance for some or all of 2009... […]

When patients with diabetes experience interruptions in health - insurance coverage, they are less likely to receive the screening tests and vaccines they need to protect their health. A new study finds that this is true even when patients receive free or reduced-cost medical care at federally funded safety net clinics... […]

Variations in health care spending by Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) are similar throughout the state despite previous research, which found significant spending differences between the private and commercial sector in McAllen, Texas... […]

US states are being given more freedom and flexibility in the implementation of health reform as stipulated in the Affordable Care Act, which aims to make sure all US citizens have access to affordable, quality health insurance, according to a bulletin released by the HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)... […]

When it comes to receiving dental care, New Jersey has its share of underserved children, according to a Rutgers study. In 2009, more than one-fifth of the state's children between 3 and 18 received no dental care within the previous year... […]

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government. But a first-of-its-kind analysis of newly available government data found just the opposite when it comes to infants cove […]

Today eHealthInsurance released a series of tips for health insurance consumers working on their 2011 federal tax returns. […]

Today PlanPrescriber published advice for Medicare beneficiaries who are considering taking advantage of the 2012 Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period (MADP). […]

eHealthInsurance announces that it is offering individual and family health insurance plans from Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma through the company’s primary retail website, www.ehealthinsurance.com. […]

Sam Gibbs, president of eHealth Government Systems, joined a distinguished list of state leaders and industry executives at the 2012 Health Insurance Exchange Summit in Las Vegas today. Gibbs and other guests discussed successful strategies for health plans and states as they begin tackling the task of developing state health insurance exchanges. […]

eHealthInsurance releases an updated list of open enrollment periods for child-only individual health insurance plans in states where information was available. […]

eHealthInsurance publishes answers to questions commonly asked by consumers facing increases in their monthly health insurance premiums. […]

eHealth, Inc. releases two new infographics to accompany its recently published report on the impact of smoking and body mass index (BMI) on average monthly premiums paid for individual health insurance. […]

Today eHealthInsurance released five tips designed to help consumers make the most of their health insurance dollars before the end of 2011. […]

The 2012 Medicare Annual Enrollment Period officially ended earlier this year on December 7, 2011, and one-in-five seniors (19%) on Medicare were unaware of the new dates. So, PlanPrescriber published seven tips for people on Medicare who missed the 2012 annual enrollment period and need advice on how to maximize their drug and health coverage benefits in th […]

Today eHealth, Inc., the parent company of eHealthInsurance, released an addendum to its November 2011 ‘Cost and Benefits’ report describing the impact of smoking and body mass index (BMI) on average monthly premiums paid for individual health insurance. […]

Today eHealthInsurance released a series of tips for health insurance consumers working on their 2011 federal tax returns. […]

Today PlanPrescriber published advice for Medicare beneficiaries who are considering taking advantage of the 2012 Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period (MADP). […]

eHealthInsurance announces that it is offering individual and family health insurance plans from Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma through the company’s primary retail website, www.ehealthinsurance.com. […]

Sam Gibbs, president of eHealth Government Systems, joined a distinguished list of state leaders and industry executives at the 2012 Health Insurance Exchange Summit in Las Vegas today. Gibbs and other guests discussed successful strategies for health plans and states as they begin tackling the task of developing state health insurance exchanges. […]

eHealthInsurance releases an updated list of open enrollment periods for child-only individual health insurance plans in states where information was available. […]

eHealthInsurance publishes answers to questions commonly asked by consumers facing increases in their monthly health insurance premiums. […]

eHealth, Inc. releases two new infographics to accompany its recently published report on the impact of smoking and body mass index (BMI) on average monthly premiums paid for individual health insurance. […]

Today eHealthInsurance released five tips designed to help consumers make the most of their health insurance dollars before the end of 2011. […]

The 2012 Medicare Annual Enrollment Period officially ended earlier this year on December 7, 2011, and one-in-five seniors (19%) on Medicare were unaware of the new dates. So, PlanPrescriber published seven tips for people on Medicare who missed the 2012 annual enrollment period and need advice on how to maximize their drug and health coverage benefits in th […]

Today eHealth, Inc., the parent company of eHealthInsurance, released an addendum to its November 2011 ‘Cost and Benefits’ report describing the impact of smoking and body mass index (BMI) on average monthly premiums paid for individual health insurance. […]