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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Michigan Attorney General and Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation Near Agreement on Rate Increases on Under Age 65 Individual Products

DETROIT, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), the Michigan Attorney General and the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation are near an agreement that would conclude the Attorney General's and Office of Financial and Insurance Regu...

New report: Individual health insurance market failing consumers

New York, NY, July 21, 2009The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, p...

Consumers Can Now Shop Online for Individual Health Insurance Coverage With Mercy Health Plans

ST. LOUIS, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopping and purchasing health insurance online just got easier. Mercy Health Plans (MHP) is proud to announce the launch of Mercy One Connect(TM), a newly released online quoting and ecommerce application that is designed to connect consumers and brokers with i...

VSP's Individual Plan Thrives in a Starving Economy

Less Than One in Five Employers Offer Stand Alone Vision Coverage* RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- VSP(R) Vision Care launched the industry's first fully-insured individual vision plan two years ago and has seen it grow to more than 25,000 members nationwide. In a recent stu...

Teens Likely to Trade Team Sports for Individual Exercise

Vigorous activity is less likely than walking or running as kids age, researchers say FRIDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- As they get older, many adolescents become less physically active and are more likely to abandon the most vigorous kinds of activities, a new study finds. Researc...

SCAI Statement on 'A National Study of the Effect of Individual Proton Pump Inhibitors on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients Treated with Clopidogrel Following Coronary Stenting: The Clopidogrel Medco Outcomes Study'

LAS VEGAS, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of the Clopidogrel Medco Outcomes Study presented today during SCAI's Annual Scientific Sessions found the anti-clotting benefits of clopidogrel (Plavix) may be reduced when taken concurrently with commonly used heartburn medications called proton pump inhi...

Blue Cross Launches Largest Selection of Individual Plans Available in Minnesota

New Consumer-Designed Health Plans Offer Broader Choice EAGAN, Minn., April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) today announced the largest array of individual health plan options available in the state for people looking to buy health insurance ...

Hazardous Health Plans: Consumer Reports Investigation Finds Serious Gaps in Individual Health Insurance Policies

Insurance Loopholes and Limits can Leave Consumers with Huge Medical Debts; Consumer Reports Offers Tips on How People can Protect Themselves YONKERS, N.Y., April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Consumer Reports investigation finds that many people who believe they have good health ins...

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Satisfaction with Health Plans is Notably Lower among Individual Purchasers and Small Employer Members

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Health plan members who individually purchase their plans or work for small employers are considerably less satisfied with their health plan experience, compared with health plan members who work for larger organizations, according to the J.D. Powe...

Nature Made(R) Seeking Stories of Individual Greatness for Upcoming Documentary

NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With words of change echoing across the country, Americans have been challenged to embrace the possibilities ahead and reestablish the greatness of this nation. America's ability to seize this challenge as a whole begins with the steps taken by...

AvMed Health Plans Launches New Individual Health Plan Options in South Florida

MIAMI, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- AvMed Health Plans, one of Florida's leading health benefits providers, has introduced new individual health plan options to residents of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. The competitively-priced plans-being offered collectively through AvMed Individual He...

Facing Large and Uncontrollable Financial Losses on Individual Policies, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Will Cut Up to 1000 Jobs in 2009, Reduce Spending and Seek Rate Increases on Individual Plans

DETROIT, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced a series of actions today to preserve its financial health by partly offsetting projected losses on its individual health plans that could exceed a cumulative total of $1 billion from 2009 through 2011. Daniel...

Over 40 Hospitals Lend Support for Individual Insurance Market Reform

LANSING, Mich., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers for Fair and Affordable Insurance Reform (CFAIR) is pleased to announce four major hospital systems, including 41 hospitals, are supporting the need for individual insurance market reform. In a letter to state legislators, Ken Matzick, Presi...

BCBSA Announces Support for Individual Mandate Coupled With a Requirement for Insurers to Offer Coverage to All

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scott P. Serota, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), released the following statement: "The nation's 39 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies have been steadfast champions of comprehens...

Health Plans Propose Guaranteed Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions and Individual Coverage Mandate

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health plans today proposed guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual coverage mandate. Under the new proposal, health plans participating in the individual health insur...

USA-ONE Interactive Announces Document Management Solutions That Meet the Needs of Individual Industries

One of the foremost providers of document management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, USA-ONE, announces exciting new innovations in its Docuvation software. Denver, CO (PRWEB) November 19, 2008 -- USA-ONE Interactive ( www.usa-one.com ), one of the for...

Poll Shows Baucus Individual Mandate To Buy Health Insurance Unpopular

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog countered Senator Max Baucus' (D-MT) contention that the mandatory purchase of health insurance was popular with Americans by pointing to a poll showing that voters overwhelmingly reject requiring proof of private healt...

Michigan Business & Professional Association Urges Legislature to Act Quickly on Individual Health Care Reform

WARREN, Mich., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The weak Michigan economy, rising health care costs, staggering business tax increases, and increased energy costs are all converging to create a perfect storm for Michigan's small business community. And a critical lifeline -- affordable healt...

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Receives Grant to Study Tailoring Pediatric Preventive Care to Individual Needs

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will receive a $247,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to support research to test a new method of identifying children at risk for developmental delays and to recommend new programs for preventive care....

Laser surgery probe targets individual cancer cells

AUSTIN, TexasMechanical engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a laser "microscalpel" that destroys a single cell while leaving nearby cells intact, which could improve the precision of surgeries for cancer, epilepsy and other diseases. ...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Introduces New Individual Products

Individual PPO Products Offer Cost-Effective Choices for Georgia's Uninsured Population ATLANTA, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGa) introduced two suites of PPO products called SmartSense and Premier that will provide Georg...

WellPoint Appoints Raj G. Bal as President of Individual Business

INDIANAPOLIS, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) today announced the appointment of Raj Bal as president of its Individual Business segment, effective July 8, 2008. In his new role, Bal will be responsible for leading WellPoint's Individual Business segment, which ...

Utah Schools Leading the Nation in Adopting Technology to Manage Individual Student Achievement

DigitalBridge's DigitalSAMS(TM) Solution Adopted by 13 Utah School Districts, Allowing Secure, Comprehensive Student Information Sharing for Timely, Accurate Monitoring of Individual Student Academic Progress Provo School District the Latest to Utilize the Revolutionary Learning ...

Bone Crusher, the King of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club With the Record of 'Biggest Individual Weight Loss,' Releases Fitness DVD!

'Battle of the Bulge' Fitness DVD offers work-outs for plus-size people to help them get in shape and lose weight! LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Bone Crusher, who holds the record of "Biggest Individual Weight Loss" on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, uses his personal experience...

MEDEX / Harvard Partnership Now Offers Affordable, New Intelligence to Individual Business & Leisure Travelers

MEDEX 360m Collaboration with Harvard Medical International Provides Comprehensive and Vital Global Health Information BALTIMORE, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDEX Global Group and Harvard Medical International have extended the reach of their groundbreaking MEDEX 360m partnership with...

A simplified scoring system may predict overall CVD risk, individual CVD components risk

Physicians currently evaluate a patients risk for heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases (CVD) individually, but a new assessment tool could gauge risk of overall ,or global, CVD and a range of cardiovascular diseases at one time, according to a study published in Circulation: Jou...

New AHIP Survey Finds Individual Health Care Coverage Accessible and Affordable

Nine out of ten who complete the application process were offered coverage WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A comprehensive survey of the individual health insurance market released today by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) found that health care coverage is more acces...

AHIP Releases Individual Market Guarantee Access Proposal, Announces Support for Third Party Review of Rescission Decisions

Ignagni: "This initiative is a fundamental repositioning." WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One year ago America's Health Insurance Plans' (AHIP) Board of Directors advanced a proposal to provide universal coverage. Today, the Board released a proposal to guarantee access to ...

Overwhelming Majority of Michigan Residents Favors Individual Health Insurance Market Reforms Supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Individual Market Reform package supported by 81 percent of Michigan adults DETROIT, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- By huge margins, Michigan residents support a package of reform measures proposed in the Michigan Legislature that would protect consumers in the individual health insurance market from r...

Why Healthy People Should Consider Individual Disability Insurance

ONTARIO, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- When you are healthy, purchasing disability insurance can seem counter-intuitive. Purchasing disability insurance protects your most precious financial asset: your ability to earn a living, says Frank N. Darras, the nation's leading disability and long-...

Wells Fargo Offers Online Benefit Administration for Business and Individual Healthcare Consumers

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC ) today introduced new online portals allowing both businesses and individuals to administer health care benefits online. Businesses can use the CEO(R) Health Benefit Services to reduce paperwork and increase security of ...

454 Sequencing(TM): Science Paper Describes a Novel, Highly Efficient Method of Sequencing Ancient DNA; Sequences the Mitochondria of 10 Individual Mammoths to Prove It

BRANFORD, Conn., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, today reported that researchers from Pennsylvania State University have used the company's Genome Sequencer(TM) FLX system to sequence the entire mitochondrial genomes from 10 individual woolly mammoths. The study, e...

Precedent Launches Revolutionary Individual Health Insurance Plans in Texas

Online Site Promises Easy Application, Instantaneous Quotes Plus Increased Coverage 'On Demand' DALLAS, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A new era in health insurance dawned today in Texas, promising affordable individual health insurance for the estimated three million uninsur...

Patient’s Individual Cardiologist Best Judge For Deciding Appropriate Treatment In Chronic Coronary Artery Diseas

A new research conducted at the Heart Institute of the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in Brazil showed that following individual doctor's advice was the key to// getting the best care in case of chronic coronary artery disease. The findings of the study to be published in the Septem...

Sensible Overall Dietary Pattern More Important than Individual Food Choices

Altering ones dietary pattern is often difficult and often the barrier to change is a preoccupation with specific choices: Can I have eggs for breakfast? Is oatmeal better// than raisin bran? Of course individual choices are important, provided they fit into a sound overall dietary pattern, accordi...

Stress Levels Determine Problem-Solving Abilities Of An Individual

Did you know that your problem solving abilities could be affected by something as simple as watching graphically violent or emotional scenes in a movie?// True say Ohio State University Medical Center researchers, who claim that it can induce sufficient stress problem-solving abilities. The study ...

The Lupus Foundation of America Applauds New Legislation that Caps Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs

... be charged for any one prescription, and a $500 cap on the total amount an individual could be charged for all medications during any given month. This is critic...society. For patients with serious or life-threatening conditions or for an individual with multiple co-morbid conditions, this legislation will provide greater a...

DuPage Community Foundation Awards $15,000 Grant to Marianjoy Pediatric Continuing Care Program

...d groups focused on swallowing and eating disorders. These recurring 8-week classes are designed to help strengthen and reinforce skills gained during individual therapy sessions, while providing coping skills children need to manage larger, more demanding settings, such as school or community participation. ...

Ability to process information as a baby continues into adulthood

...sing new information and then making associations with other information an individual encounters throughout life. These processes work together to allow an individual to grow in knowledge, says Fagan. Over 20 years ago, Fagan developed the...

Lifeclinic to Showcase Health Stations and Health Communicator at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores 2009 Pharmacy and Technology Conference

... individuals to take an active role in their healthcare and provide corporate management with tools to help reduce costs while improving the health of individual employees. Please visit http://www.lifeclinic.com for more information ### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bloodpres...