Thursday, May 08, 2014

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is alive and well.

By Erica Werner 
Associated Press 
May 8, 2014

...Aetna reported (click here) payment rates in "the low- to mid-80 percent range;" Wellpoint said the rate was as high as 90 percent for those whose premium had come due; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association said 80 to 85 percent; and the Health Care Service Corporation, which sells Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in five states, pegged the rate at 83 percent or above. The figures were in line with what individual insurers have said on earnings calls with analysts and elsewhere in recent weeks....