A growing number of San Diego companies are offering a low-cost healthcare plan for their employees. However, those employees have to go to Mexico for services. “It's cheap. It's easier,” says Alejandra Martinez. She’s one of the employees at the Hotel del Coronado who has opted for the hotel's cross-border HMO health plan called SIMNSA, which is licensed by the State of California.
It’s annual enrollment season -- the time of year when we are allowed to select the workplace benefits that can impact the care we receive as well as reduce stress and help to cover out-of-pocket costs. It’s worth the time to review your options. Don’t simply default to the benefits you’ve had year-over-year. Life changes – whether you’re planning to get married, have a baby, or finally plan to deal with that lingering medical issue.
Pennsylvania regulators have issued a $1 million civil penalty against UnitedHealthcare on allegations the health insurer violated a number of state and federal laws when paying medical claims, particularly for patients seeking treatment of autism and substance use disorders.
Despite increased attention to gender disparities in the workplace, indefensible differences in salary between women and men persist in medicine. One national study of academic physicians in 24 public medical schools found that female physicians make about 10% less than their male counterparts at all academic ranks, even after adjusting for specialty, hours worked, and other variables.
California Public Employees Retirement System raised its position in Humana Inc by 8.6% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 850,334 shares of the insurance provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 67,252 shares during the quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System owned 0.63% of Humana worth $217,405,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Managed-care stocks rose after Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled a proposal to pay for a $20.5 trillion Medicare for All program with taxes on businesses, financial firms, and the wealthy. “Today, in 2019, in the United States of America, the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, inadequate health coverage is crushing the finances and ruining the lives of tens of millions of American families,” Warren wrote in a lengthy document out Friday morning.