News For: Cigna health Care Gastric BypassTell Me How You Feel: CIGNA Lets Patients Rate Their Experience with Behavioral Health Care Professionals BLOOMFIELD, Conn.----It’s not unusual for doctors or psychologists to ask their patients how they feel. In fact, it happens millions of times every day. Now CIGNA has introduced a twist and is inviting the people who use its behavioral health care network to tell CIGNA how they feel about their behavioral health care professional. Universal Health Care Supporters Rally ELMIRA -- Advocates for universal health care are asking New York lawmakers in Washington, "Whose side are you on?" The group Citizen Action of New York held a rally in front of the Excellus Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Elmira Wednesday. CIGNA Clients Can Grade Therapists Online CIGNA is asking members in an online survey to assess their mental health professionals so the company can rate the therapists in the future, going further than other insurers. Rising health care costs hitting Iowans hard Health insurance premiums in Iowa rose nearly four times as fast as wages from 2000 to 2007, according to a new report.Affordability of health insurance is diminishing rapidly in Iowa, according to the data from Families USA, a national organization for health care consumers.Average family health insurance premiums both the employee and employer share climbed 72.6 percent, or $4,707, to ... East Providence workers' new contract hikes health-care contributions EAST PROVIDENCE — The city’s clerks, janitors and other members of the local steel workers union entered into a multi-year contract recently that doesn’t raise their salaries this coming year, but increases their health insurance contributions. Health-care costs rising far quicker than wages Premiums for job-based health insurance are up 5 percent in 2008 and have more than doubled since 1999, a growth rate that far outpaces inflation and the increase in workers' wages over the same period, according to an annual survey of employers released Wednesday. U.S. parents fighting obesity in Mexico U.S. parents are taking their children to Mexico for lower cost weight-loss surgery, a U.S. surgeon says.Gastric bypass and stomach banding typically cost half as much in Mexico as they do in the United States, but U.S. health officials are concerned about proper pre-screening and post-surgical care, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday.Medical complications can surface days after a ... Health Insurance Costs Climb Again Kaiser study: Health insurance premiums and deductibles are up again this year. 24% of U.S. families say paying for health care is a "serious problem." Emergency Health Centre at Willowbrook remains open during recovery period Emergency Health Centre at Willowbrook, the northwest Houston, full-service emergency care facility, remains open 24 hours a day during the storm recovery period for those in need of medical attention. Studies highlight health care toll Even as Washington and Wall Street debate the best way to avert an economic meltdown, increasing numbers of Americans are struggling with another financial crisis: the growing burden of unpaid medical bills. |


