http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog Insurance Articles, Consumer Tips and Guides, General Information on Insurance Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A 401(k) for Health Care Costs Brief: More employers are starting to offer their employees Health Savings Accounts as an option for their health care coverage. Since the HSA's can only be obtained with High Deductible Heatlh Plans premiums are much lower. Employers can then take a portion of ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/57/a-401k-for-health-care-costs.html A Health Insurance Dilemma Brief: This is another example of how Health Savings Acounts - HSA's can drastically lower the cost of health care coverage. The article also offers helpful tips on how to encourage employees to participate. You can read the full article here. http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/62/a-health-insurance-dilemma.html Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Humana Developing Multi-Payer Electronic Health Record Brief: Humana and Blue Cross Blue Shield are getting together to form what they call a “payer-based health record”. This database is going to be populated with all their claims information and is designed to: Help improve patient ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/40/blue-cross-and-blue-shield-of-florida-and-humana-developing-multi-payer-electronic-health-record.html Cut Your Health Care Costs Now Brief: This is one of those articles that you need to read! Nine ways to lower health insurance premiums. Shop Around for Health Insurance- even in good years Consider Health Savings Accounts Find a broker (like me) who works FOR YOU Tweak the finer points of your health insurance plan ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/59/cut-your-health-care-costs-now.html Despite a Slip in HMO Enrollments, Florida Remains an Attractive Healthcare Market, According the HealthLeaders-InterStudy: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care industry intelligence, finds that despite a slip in HMO enrollment, new HMOs continue to enter the Florida market. http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/28/despite-a-slip-in-hmo-enrollments-florida-remains-an-attractive-healthcare-market.html Do-It-Yourself Insurance Brief: Health insurance premiums are rising steadily, and as they do more employers are finding the increased cost prohibited. This article uses the PGA as an example. Their dilemma was how to provide the caddies with health insurance. Adding them to the group plan would ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/58/do-it-yourself-insurance.html The Heritage Foundation Brief: This is a rather lengthy (and kind of boring) article on the effects state regulations have on health insurance premiums. Fact is that increased legislation results in increased health insurance premiums. States that require health insurance to be guaranteed issue have health insurance premiums that are twice as ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/53/effect-of-state-regulations-on-health-insurance-premiums.html "Even Doctors Admit Something Must Be Done About Health Care" - The Oakland Press: Opinions Brief: The cost of health care is rising out of control causing insurance premiums to increase accordingly. A big part of it is Administrative Waste. According to a Harvard study medical billing costs about ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/33/even-doctors-admit-something-must-be-done-about-health-care.html Health Savings Accounts are becoming more popular as people try to lower their medical insurance premiums.According to the government accountability office the number of people opting for high deductible health plans increased from 3 million in January 2005 to more than 6 million in January 2006.High deductible medical insurance plans ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/105/gao-high-deductible-insurance-on-rise.html Voluntary, Free Pilot Program to Help Improve Quality Care For Chronically Ill Beneficiaries Tampa, Florida - Dec 13, 2005 - Green Ribbon Health LLC, in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), today officially launched a three-year Medicare Health Support pilot program in West Central and Southwest Florida. ... http://www.getonlinequotes.com/blog/30/green-ribbon-health-to-launch-medicare-health-support-in-florida.html