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Health Plan Introduces New Individual Products

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UPMC Health Plan is introducing eight new affordable health care coverage plans for individuals that provide 100 percent coverage on preventive care, health savings ...

Task force prepares for Affordable Care Act provisions

    Group offers recommendations to ensure health disparities are addressed By Charles Hallman Staff Writer One of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) major provisions is the creation of insurance exchanges or state-based marketplaces for small businesses and people without employer health coverage. Although these exchanges, designed to offer choices of affordable health plans, are [...]

UPMC Health Plan launches Individual Advantage

UPMC Health Plan is introducing eight new affordable health care coverage plans for individuals that provide 100 percent coverage on preventive care, health savings account options, and more. Pricing for this comprehensive coverage is as low as $2.46 a day.

Amerigroup Now Serving Members in Louisiana

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP - News) begins serving members in its 12th state, Louisiana. Amerigroup Louisiana is one of five health plans selected ...

Churches balk at birth control rule

A federal rule requiring religious organizations to pay the full cost of birth control, possible abortion-causing drugs and sterilization under their employees' health plans has aroused local ire, including the local Catholic church's refusal to comply.

First Person: I Left My Job, But Not My Affordable Health Insurance

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Officials decry rule making health plans cover contraception

Catholic-based institutions say they will face tough decisions if they must start covering contraception and other reproductive services in their health care insurance to employees.

Bismarck Bishop Speaks Out on Health Care | Video

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last year that insurance plans will be changing because of the Affordable Care Act.

Religious institutions' health plans must offer birth control

The Obama administration's decision angers religious leaders who fought the rule, but organizations such as Catholic hospitals will get an extra year to comply. The Obama administration announced Friday that it would give Catholic hospitals and other religious institutions an extra year to comply with a new requirement that most health plans provide contraceptive benefits at no cost to their ...