Archive for September 2014

Health Net Changing Plans/Networks in California (and other states)

For 2014 in California, Health Net was the only domestic carrier featuring a fairly robust PPO network on Individual plans under Obama Care....

The Senate Appropriations Committee has defined a new transgression perpetrated in the committee’s expert opinion by vendors of certified E...

In a new Forbes article, David Shaywitz ponders whether patients are the best judges of physician quality. This is a very interesting ques...

(Note: In late 2014 Anthem renegotiated the contract with Stanford and they are back in the Pathway network). Effective September 8, 2014, ...

I've added a new page to my site as we move into the autumn and towards the 2015 Open Enrollment Period. There are quite a few Special E...

Value-based health care is antithetic to patient-centered care. Value-based health care is also diametrically opposed to excellence, transpa...