NJBIZ Exclusive: Horizon offers more details about how hospitals earned OMNIA Tier 1 status Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, in an effort to counter critics of its controversial OMNIA Health Alliance, offered its most detailed explanation of how hospital systems and physician groups earned their coveted Tier 1 status in the program. […]
Horizon won’t drop controversial insurance NEWARK – Some lawmakers might not like Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s new health care plan. That’s not going to stop the state’s biggest insurer from offering it. Read more here.
Explainer: What You Should Know About Health Insurer Networks, Tiered Coverage Andrew Kitchenman | October 20, 2015 Horizon’s new OMNIA insurance plan spurs healthcare policy debates and legislative action When choosing a surgeon, hospital or clinical laboratory, it’s important to know whether the provider or facility is in the patient’s health insurance network. Those networks […]
A heated battle in N.J. over Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s plan to cut health costs Everyone wants to pay less for health care. So what could be wrong with lower-premium insurance plans in which consumers also have lower out-of-pocket costs if they use certain doctors and hospitals? Read more here.
Catholic hospital CEO and Horizon doctor debate Horizon health insurance (Listen) By Bill Spadea You’d think everyone would be happy about paying lower insurance premiums, but Horizon’s plan to tier hospitals to reduce health care costs has many customers and politicians agitated. Read More: Health care professionals talk Horizon’s Tier 1 hospitals
Legislators Hold Hearing on Horizon Omnia Health Alliance The questioning went on for hours. The Senate Commerce and Health Committees dissected Horizon’s new tiered health insurance plan, called Omnia, during a joint hearing at the State House today. Read more here.
CHANGES ON THE HORIZON Lawmakers today will demand that executives from New Jersey’s largest health insurance company explain how their dramatic venture to reduce rates next … Read more here.
Horizon N.J.’s new insurance plan: What we know so far By Susan K. Livio TRENTON — Lawmakers Monday will demand executives from New Jersey’s largest health insurance company to explain how their dramatic venture to reduce premiums by 15 percent next year will affect the rest of healthcare insurance landscape in the state. Horizon Blue […]
Horizon website offers details on OMNIA alliance Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield launched a new website to help explain its new, embattled OMNIA Health Alliance in advance of a state legislative hearing next week. Read more here.
Horizon BCBSNJ Looks to Smooth Bumpy OMNIA Rollout John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media , September 28, 2015 The CEO of Horizon BlueCross Blue Shield of New Jersey defends its value-based care collaborative, which has been criticized by the Medical Society of New Jersey. Read more here.
The not-so-healthy debate involving OMNIA The iPhone has become a ubiquitous part of almost everyone’s life, so much so that it’s hard to imagine a time when almost every technology and communications expert was certain it was going to fail. But when the phone was unveiled in 2007, it was met with a storm of […]
Insurer Seeks to Extinguish Firestorm Over Proposed Tiered Health Coverage Hudson County leaders fear hospitals in Horizon’s second tier may be forced out of business, call for delaying launch of new plan Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey executives are aiming to head off the growing backlash against one of the insurer’s largest […]
Horizon’s Marino discusses others’ fears about new OMNIA alliance When Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s largest health insurer, unveiled the new OMNIA Health Alliance, and a new health plan to be rolled out in October, there was an outpouring of concerns and questions. Read more here.