At last week’s meeting of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, it was publicly announced that approximately 21,000 members submitted forms to move to the PPO health plan administered by HMSA instead of staying with the “default” HMA plan. If that’s still true when all the smoke clears, it will mean HMSA held on [...]
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An official of the small company that recently displaced HMSA as administrator of the “default” preferred provider health plan for state and county workers says HMSA’s corporate arrogance and a string of bad strategic decisions are responsible for the nonprofit insurer’s recent problems. Harris Nakamoto, vice-president and general manager of HMA Inc., a health plan [...]
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Trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund are expected to vote today in a closed executive session on whether to penalized the state’s largest health insurer for what EUTF has called “unauthorized and inaccurate information” distributed in advertisements and mailings during November’s “open enrollment” period. The action stems from a widely circulated email [...]
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Nevadacare, a sister company of Summerlin Life & Health Insurance Co., the firm recently named to provide the “default” health plan to state-county workers in a controversial decision by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, agreed late last year to stop doing business in Iowa based on allegations made by the Iowa Insurance Commissioner. [...]
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