Tag: health insurance

Health insurance premium payment support service at CVS

H. Cutner
CVS health insurance

The company will be launching a new offering to help customers to pay these monthly bills. A recent announcement from CVS Caremark has shown that the company intends to launch a new service that is designed to help some customers to be able to pay their health insurance premiums. Members of certain participating coverage plans can head to any of the store’s locations for the service. Customers who are members of health insurance plans that participate in this program will be able to go to any of the CVS store…

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Health insurance policies reduce the risk of emergency surgery

G. Turner
Health insurance plan

A recent study has shown that people who are uninsured are more likely to require urgent procedures. The results of a new insurance news study have revealed that whether or not someone has coverage is linked to that person’s risk of having to undergo emergency aorta surgery, and that health insurance coverage is also tied to how well those people will actually do after they have received the operation. People who were uninsured had a notably larger risk of having to have urgent surgery on the aorta. The health insurance…

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Insurance agency under investigation for overbilling thousands of policyholders

Julie Campbell
insurance agency overbilling fraud

State officials are now looking into the Iowa business that may have overcharged 10,500 government employees. An insurance agency in Iowa has found itself in hot water after having been accused of overbilling an estimated 10,500 government employees for their health policies. It is believed that the overcharged workers paid a total of millions of dollars too much. The Two Rivers Insurance Co. is now being investigated by the Iowa Insurance Division (I.I.D.). The insurance agency has office locations in West Des Moines, Davenport, Burlington, and a number of other…

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Health insurance coverage increases by 12 million since Obamacare rolled out

G. Turner
health insurance deadline enrollment

A survey conducted by Gallup has shown that there have been considerable gains since last fall. The health care reform has generated a larger rise in health insurance coverage than had been previously calculated, according to the survey data from research that was recently conducted by Gallup. That study indicates that there are now 12 million Americans with coverage who were previously uninsured. This is the difference that has been recorded by Gallup since last fall when the health care reform was originally rolled out. Though the federal health insurance…

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Health insurance enrollment in Nevada continues onward

G. Turner
Nevada health insurance commissioner State Legislature Building

March 31, 2014 may have marked the end of the open enrollment period but people are still signing up. The Nevada Health Link may have ended its open enrollment for health insurance on the exchange as of the close of March, this year, but this hasn’t stopped residents of the state from signing up in order to take advantage of another opportunity. A sixty day special enrollment session started at the beginning of this month and enrollments are still coming. The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board, which is responsible…

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