Blue Cross pays record $1.825M fine
Chapel Hill-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has agreed to pay a $1.825 million fine — the largest fine ever collected by the Department of Insurance — in connection with the company’s admission that it underpaid 140,000 emergency room claims by up to $15 million.
Blue Cross [...]
2004 Health Insurance Premiums Expected to Rise
Private health insurance premiums increased 13.9 percent in 2003, the largest increase since the 1990’s. The estimate for 2004 premium increases are as high as 18%. A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) revealed some troubling facts about our nations healthcare [...]
Chiropractic Coverage in Tricare
Here is some information from Tricare regarding chiropractic coverage.
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2001 established the Chiropractic Care Program, replacing the former Chiropractic Health Care Demonstration Program (CHCDP) that ended in Sept. 1999. A five-year phased-in implementation began in 2001.
Eligibility for the Chiropractic Care Program
Effective Oct. 1, 2001, the [...]
Is Your Health Insurance Company Bad for your Health?
Medicare chief Tom Scully told a House subcommittee Thursday he is willing to work with Congress to reverse some of the 5.4% cut in physician fees that occurred on January 1, but that some of the solutions proposed so far are too generous. “There’s clearly the potential, if you don’t watch it, for health spending [...]
