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Colorado Health Insurance Exchange Update for 2012
As previously mentioned, many states are working towards health insurance exchanges in response to health care reform. Colorado specifically has a plan in place to incorporate an effective exchange. The state started their exchange process back in 2006 with the appointment of a Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform. A 12-member Exchange Board was [...]
Learning to Be Lean
As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling. With about one in three children in the United States obese or overweight, according to government statistics, the need for such programs [...]
International Student Insurance for Indians
Every year thousands of Indian students visit foreign countries to pursue their higher education. Health care costs in foreign countries are never cheap and most of the universities have mandated student medical insurance coverage for International students. There are many insurers in India who have designed medical insurance coverage for Indian students visiting abroad. A [...]
Geisinger Health Plan System Not Hiring Smokers?
Pennsylvania-based hospital through the Geisinger Health Plan System is expected to start screening job applicants for signs of nicotine for 2012. A hospital spokesperson, Marcy Marshall, said they plan on not hiring smokers to work at the facility starting February 1, 2012. People who apply to a job position at Geisinger Health System can be [...]
Coverage for gender surgery jumps; More major insurers paying for sex transformation procedures
Last year, 85 companies had insurance plans that paid for sex transformation surgeries, and only 49 did in 2009. The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation’s largest gay rights [...]