New York Health Insurance:
Health insurance in New York. Read the latest news on new York affordable health insurance plans and what NY and private companies have to meet your health insurance needs: group, individual, family and small business health insurance news about New York.
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2009 Sep 12 - 16:04New York Governor David A. Paterson announced that insurers must cover seasonal flu and novel H1N1 vaccinations for children who are aged 19 and younger and enrolled in comprehensive health plans.
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2009 Aug 6 - 11:13Purchasing health insurance is a big decision. Most health insurances are cost prohibitive, especially for a family, making research about what health insurance to buy tedious and even frightening. You might qualify for health insurance in New York through the Healthy New York program. Healthcore offers a health insurance premium subsidy, in addition to an additional five percent for completing a health risk assessment.
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2009 Jun 30 - 18:42As health care coverage becomes an increasing concern for many working families, the Child Health Plus program has been expanded from 250-percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) to 400-percent of the FPL making comprehensive, affordable coverage accessible for all uninsured children in Rockland County.
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2009 May 15 - 15:58NY democrat Governor David Paterson, is looking for more regulation to control New York health insurance rates as critics say rate increases have driven too many New Yorkers to drop their plans. One of Paterson's proposals seeks to require New York health insurance providers to gain state approval for rate hikes. Insurance companies are currently able to set medical coverage rates without government control. Paterson, and others, say that needs to change.
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2009 Apr 14 - 18:14Over the last decade, 7% of Medicaid health insurance long-term care applications in New York state were denied on the grounds that individuals transferred assets to become eligible for the program, but there is wide variation in counties' denial rates.
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2009 Feb 4 - 11:17The Chemung County Department of Aging and Long Term Care is available to assist Chemung County Medicare beneficiaries in understanding their health insurance options, including Medicare Private Health Plans.
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2009 Jan 19 - 12:14Chemung County officials are trying to secure Federal Medicaid funding to New York counties.
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2008 Nov 3 - 10:12Nearly 211,000 children and teens in New York City lack health insurance, restricting their access to regular preventive screenings and other health care needed to help them grow up healthy.
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2008 Oct 15 - 11:37There are about two hundred thousand children in NYC that don't have health insurance coverage.
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2008 Sep 10 - 16:31Ninety percent of New York state physicians who responded to a survey have changed the way they treat patients because of restrictions imposed by health insurance companies.