12/25/2008 News For: Aetna Health Insurance Northeast PaAetna, Baycare hospitals settle contract dispute About 300,000 Tampa Bay area residents with Aetna health insurance got an early Christmas present this week: The company settled its contract dispute with BayCare Health Systems. Aetna Signs Agreement with BayCare Health System TAMPA, Fla.----Aetna and BayCare Health System announced today that they have reached agreement on a new multi-year contract that ensures continuation of their long-term relationship in the Tampa Bay area. Hospital Websites Vastly Outperform Health Insurance Websites In Study ForeSee Results announced that in a broad benchmark measuring aggregate customer satisfaction with many different kinds of healthcare websites, hospital websites vastly outperform the websites of health insurance companies. On the ForeSee Results benchmark's 100-point scale, hospital websites received an aggregate score of 74 and health insurance websites received an aggregate score of 65. Gerald McEntee: Health Care Reform Needs a Public Option If we fail to insist on a public health insurance option as part of any health care reform legislation enacted in Congress, we won't have the kind of change that America voted for in November. Everyone will have health insurance ? but it will be costly The good news is that, now that Democrats have won total control of the government, all Americans are likely to have health insurance. Health Highlights: Dec. 24, 2008 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Rendell'S Top Health Care Aide To Step Down | The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down. Texas extends health coverage for children Texas officials are allowing more time for 34,000 children living in Hurricane Ike-affected areas to turn in their applications for Medicaid and other government health insurance programs. Ohio health program slow to reach children COLUMBUS - A health insurance program meant to help middle-income families who have youngsters with serious illnesses needs to be reworked to reach more people, officials said. Finding health coverage after a layoff can be tough Across the country, the loss of nearly 2 million jobs in the past year is stirring anxieties about how to find and pay for health insurance on your own. |




