AHIP HI-WIRE – Connecting You to the Health Insurance Industry
Designed to help time-starved professionals like you. AHIP HI-WIRE is the single best source for news and analysis that covers the full health insurance industry. Don't want to visit a Web site every day? AHIP HI-WIRE's dynamic e-newsletter, AHIP HI-WIRE Connection, will continue to be fully customizable and delivered to your inbox.
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AHIP’s Individual Market Guarantee Access Proposal
AHIP’s Board of Directors released a three-part proposal on the individual health insurance market that includes a plan to guarantee access to health care coverage to all Americans, new initiatives to give consumers peace of mind about individual health care coverage, and steps states need to take if they are considering a requirement for universal participation.
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New Online Training Program for Medicare Advantage and Part D
In light of the intense scrutiny of Medicare marketing activities, and the pressure we feel from Congress, beneficiary groups, and other stakeholders, as well as the increasingly stringent requirements established by the CMS, the AHIP Center for Insurance Education and Professional Development has launched a new online training program, Marketing Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Plans: Understanding Medicare Basics, Plan Options, and Marketing and Enrollment Requirements. This course is designed to strengthen your organization’s marketing staff, agents, and brokers ability to provide the information beneficiaries need to make the decisions that are best for them.
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AHIP's Plan to Cover the Uninsured
More than 40 million uninsured Americans will have access to affordable health insurance coverage under a comprehensive new set of targeted policy proposals released by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). The plan would expand eligibility for public programs, enable all consumers to purchase health insurance with pre-tax dollars, provide financial assistance to help working families afford coverage, and encourage states to develop and implement access proposals.
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An Online Guide to Resolving Health Insurance Disputes
This new site is the first step in establishing a clearinghouse for consumer information about the appeals process for health insurance claims. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to build the website to provide consumers with additional information, including state-specific procedures on how to appeal claims.
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A Big Year, A Big Conference: When the Issues Are This Important – Institute 2008
It’s certain to be a paramount year in the health insurance plan industry, with health system reform at the forefront of this ever-important Presidential campaign. Although the candidates talk about what’ll work and what won’t, what’s important and what’s not, Institute 2008 will continue to focus on real applications, real solutions, real results. That’s why it’s long been considered the nation’s leading health care conference. Join us in San Francisco, June 18-20, 2008 and you’ll leave knowing you’re ready to face your job with the latest information on the trends and the topics that continue to shape the industry. It’s a big year, be part of it.
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AHIP Plan to Improve Health Care Safety and Quality
Patients and physicians will have more information to make value-based health care decisions under a comprehensive new strategy to improve the safety and quality of medical care released by the AHIP Board of Directors. The plan calls for the development of a new entity to compare the safety and efficacy of medical procedures and technologies, advocates steps to promote transparency of health care information and speed the adoption of best practices, and calls for the creation of a new patient-centered dispute resolution mechanism.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Guide: How to Choose Your 2008 Plan
AHIP recently published a new guide/workbook for helping Medicare beneficiaries make informed decisions about their prescription drug plan options for 2008. This resource is an updated version of a guide, released last year by AHIP, that received positive feedback from beneficiaries, advocates and other partners.
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Preparing The Way — Disaster Readiness Planning For Health Insurance Plans
AHIP's Readiness Task Force published a report that assembled some of the best practices and procedures employed by health insurance plans in emergency preparedness and contingency planning.
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Our goal is to provide a unified voice for the health care financing industry, to expand access to high quality, cost effective health care to all Americans, and to ensure Americans’ financial security through robust insurance markets, product flexibility and innovation, and an abundance of consumer choice.
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