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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois announces improved prescription mail-service pricing
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois announced improved pricing with PrimeMail, their contracting mail service pharmacy. Pending regulatory approval, they begin implementing this pricing for non-HMO business in February 2009. The new pricing will use the same maximum...
Delta Dental maintains largest dentist network in the nation
A new report shows that Delta Dental maintains the largest network of dentists in the nation, a position the nation's largest dental benefit system has held for more than five decades. The report by NetMinder, an independent firm that provides data on providers and...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois adds new PPO Network Provider Types
The following provider types have been added to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO network for individual policies: Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Home Infusion Therapy (HIT), Advanced Practice Nurses (APN), Orthotics, Prosthetics and Optometrists. Members...
Localize your health insurance needs
It's tough finding health insurance that really suits your needs these days. It's even tougher trying to find reasonable rates. Lots of people swear that searching for health insurance quotes online is the "cheapest" way to go and the fastest. Well perhaps it may be...
Aetna Introduces New Chicagoland Plan for Small Businesses
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aetna (NYSE: AET) is introducing a health insurance plan with the goal of helping small businesses in under-served communities offer health insurance to their employees for the first time ever. Called the Aetna Illinois Community Plan, it is...
Health-Care Outlays Climb at Slowest Rate in Years
Health-care spending grew at its lowest rate in nearly a decade in 2007, but it continued to swallow an ever-bigger portion of U.S. gross domestic product and family budgets, a new federal study shows. Restrained by a sharply slower growth in prescription-drug...
Spending Rise for Health Care and Prescription Drugs Slows
NY Times — National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963, the government reported Monday. But other types of health spending rose at a brisk pace, pushing the...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois introduces new ID card to individual plans
Effective January 2009, a redesigned Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois ID card will be issued to Individual Markets members. The redesigned card is the result of new Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association guidelines to standardize ID cards among Blues plans. The...
“Do you have health insurance?”
Here is a cool video asking people on the street about their health insurance and how they feel about the current system.
Small Business Struggle to Provide Health Insurance
Here is a great video from PBS that explains the problems of the current health insurance system. PBS - Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Insurance