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By Kathryn Mayer |
March 19, 2012
If you’re living in Michigan, you’re likely pretty pleased with your health plan; but in Colorado, not so much. That’s the news coming from a J.D. Powers and Associates health plan study.
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By Dan Cole |
March 13, 2012
I’ve spent the last few weeks performing market share reviews of the five largest health carriers in the country.
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By Dan Cole |
March 7, 2012
United Healthcare was founded in the 70s, and was recently awarded by J.D. Power and Associates for having the highest employer satisfaction rating. Of course, J.D. Power uses Aetna (and before that, Anthem), but I won’t tell anyone.
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By Dan Cole |
February 28, 2012
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care company in the United States, dominating nearly every possible measure for market share dominance in the health insurance arena.
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By Dan Cole |
February 22, 2012
Next to Anthem (who’s the smallest overall), Cigna actually has the poorest market share on midsize plans – but don’t count them out, they make money with the big boys.
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By James E. Green |
February 17, 2012
A round-up of the week’s employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web
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By Dan Cole |
February 14, 2012
Last week, we saw a good example of a health insurance carrier, Aetna, that exemplifies the “average”: typical commissions, straight spread across market sizes, and diverse geographical coverage. This week we’re going to look at the smallest of the top 5: Anthem.
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By Dan Cole |
February 8, 2012
Last week I took the briefest of looks at the health insurance market and how this controversial empire is carved up amongst the top five power players: Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Kaiser, and United. Now I want to spend the next few blogs going in depth on these carriers, taking a...
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By Dan Cole |
January 31, 2012
By my best count, there are 1,014 major health insurance carriers in the United States. Just think of the choice that represents… more than a thousand different ways to be denied coverage because you’re alive and that’s technically a pre-existing condition.
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By Denis Storey |
December 1, 2011
William “Bill” Hill is doing exactly what he set out to do with his life. And he couldn’t be happier. Or more successful at it.
