Posts Tagged ‘underwriting’
Checking Out Your Medicine Chest
Insurance carriers regularly look in your medicine chest . . . mostly when you apply for life or health insurance. They want to know what medications you have taken over the last few years. This information is used to determine how healthy (or not) you have been and whether (or not) you might be a good risk going forward. You pay for insurance [...]
Health Insurance and Coventry
Coventry is a relative newcomer to Georgia. They entered the individual major medical market in Atlanta and a few other metro area's in the second quarter of 2007. To staff their offices they hired quite a few folks away from BCBSGA which, in my opinion, proved to be a bad move. Coventry decided the best way to make a splash was to essentially [...]
Health Insurance and Aetna
How does health insurance with Aetna work? In today's market (2/11/2009) Aetna offer's the best overall value of any carrier in Georgia. Of course, that can all change. Aetna's underwriting can be the most onerous in some ways and flexible in others. I have a reasonably good offer rate for applications submitted through my office. This is [...]
