BestHealthCareRates states that the healthcare reform proposed by the Federal Government may actually eliminate affordable medical insurance from the private sector entirely. While publicly funded healthcare may seem to create affordable medical insurance for more Americans, it may actually create a bigger problem.
Private medical insurance is not the enemy of affordable healthcare in the [...]

Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of software and service solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that United America Indemnity Group, Inc. (”United America”) has implemented Duck Creek’s Policy Administration solution for a number of its Commercial ISO lines products. The PA-based carrier went live within six months with a custom Vacant Property [...]

will become the first national health service company to go 24/7 – responding to U.S. customer service telephone inquiries 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all its medical, dental and pharmacy health employee benefits plans.
In addition, select CIGNA service representatives will proactively monitor Twitter and Web Logs in order to find people [...]

Canada needs to close the gap in pension coverage, and the private sector has the tools to do it, remarked Dean Connor, President, Sun Life Financial Canada. Connor was speaking today at a meeting at the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Connor noted that “The main pension gap is with a subset of Canadians who are not [...]

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued late on May 29, 2009 proposed regulatory changes regarding Medicare reimbursement for long-term acute care (“LTAC”) hospitals. First, CMS issued an interim final rule in which CMS is revising the relative payment weights that would apply to all discharges occurring between [...]

In a lawsuit pending in Wayne County Circuit Court arising out of the demise of the Detroit-based OmniCare, a once-large HMO servicing Medicaid recipients, several major Detroit area hospitals filed a Brief today in support of their claim for $75 Million in damages from United American Healthcare, the former manager of the failed HMO, [...]

Created to provide a unified voice of concern for health care providers, patients, employers and caregivers from across the country, a new grassroots movement named FAIR launched.
Troubled by a historical pattern of inadequate reimbursement and lack of financial transparency by the nation’s largest health insurers, FAIR will advocate for greater responsibility, transparency and fair [...]

Humana Military Healthcare Services (HMHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. proudly announces its sponsorship of the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl. The sixth annual college bowl game recognizes and pays special tribute to active duty and veterans from all branches of the United States Armed Forces with various patriotic events held throughout the [...]

United American Healthcare Corporation, which owns and provides comprehensive healthcare management services to a managed care organization in Tennessee, today issued the following statement regarding a legal motion filed today in Wayne County Circuit Court regarding the Company’s planned stock repurchase program:
As a matter of corporate policy, United American Healthcare Corporation does not address the [...]

For the first time, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™ has released the Thriving-Struggling-Suffering Index for Americans revealing that, in the first two weeks of November 2008, the average number of struggling Americans hit 60 percent, a rise of 14 percent from the beginning of 2008. At the same time, the weekly average of Americans thriving hit [...]