Most health-plan rosters tell you little more than your telephone book does.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor Lottery] Reference

Healthwise An online program offers health-plan members tips on lower-back pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Online Records Get Patients Involved in Care] Reference

Like other health insurers, Cigna has forecast a decline in health-plan enrollment in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cigna to Cut 1,100 Jobs,] Reference

WellPoint said it expects health-plan enrollment to fall by 150,000 members in the second half.    From Wordnik.com.  [WellPoint Net Falls, Yet Pricing,] Reference

As the economy shows signs of recovery, health-plan enrollment also could stabilize, analysts say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurers' Profits Seen Rising] Reference

As a result, the jobless rate and outflow of health-plan members is likely to moderate, she suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Plans Lose Members to Layoffs] Reference

After tiering comes a whole complex of health-plan proposals, known in the business as "consumer-driven care.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paying Up For Quality Care] Reference

And your fourth annual health-plan rankings showed many with outstanding scores for high-quality service and care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Medical Malcontents] Reference

Ms. Flygare says clients ask Blue Cross to help them understand consumer behavior as well as health-plan administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Breed of Business Gurus Rises] Reference

The gains, coupled with recommendations from groups like the cancer society, could pave the way for wider health-plan coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Matters] Reference

Most people don't do any research, suggesting that health-plan rating sites may face a difficult task getting consumers to use them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurers and ratings groups post information to help patients choose doctors] Reference

Some of UnitedHealth's rivals, such as WellPoint Inc., have focused more on the core business of administering health-plan benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnitedHealth Energized by Ancillary Units] Reference

Understanding the Costs It's important for health-plan members to fully understand the financial implications of going out-of-network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurers Reach Fee Deal] Reference

Only after the same health-plan member contacted the company again did WellCare shut down online access to the information, on April 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Your Medical Records at Risk?] Reference

This year it has twice lowered profit expectations amid problems keeping premiums ahead of medical costs and declines in health-plan enrollments.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnitedHealth Posts 29% Drop in Net] Reference

With the economy struggling and health-plan costs steadily increasing, it's an even worse idea than usual simply to default to your existing plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open enrollment: Five mistakes to avoid] Reference

The idea is that insurers will be able to use the certifications to steer health-plan members to hospitals that meet the highest standards of care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guidelines for Heart Care Show Promise] Reference

UnitedHealth Group Inc. reported an expected 29% drop in third-quarter profit but said a weak economy would hurt health-plan enrollments next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnitedHealth Posts 29% Drop in Net] Reference

The company cited accelerating medical costs and a sharp decline in commercial health-plan members as reasons for its poor first-quarter performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnitedHealth Slashes Forecast] Reference

UnitedHealth, for instance, said earlier this year that it would lose 550,000 of its 28.5 million commercial health-plan members in the first quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earnings Appear Unhealthy for Insurers] Reference

Then, as the economy has soured, many employers also have cut or reduced coverage and made health insurers scramble to gain or keep health-plan members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cigna to Cut 1,100 Jobs,] Reference

In the letter, sent to major insurers, the doctor groups argued that recent research from Rand Corp. showed that the health-plan rankings are unreliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors Slam Insurers Over Their Rankings] Reference

But in general, health-plan officials say they take such missives seriously, partly because they may reflect broader service breakdowns that need to be fixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Gripes Over Insurance to the Top Brass] Reference

That's because reimbursements for out-of-network services for health-plan members are often calculated as a percentage of the usual fee, not of the actual bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurance Settlements May Benefit Patients] Reference

WellCare learned of the problem March 20, when a health-plan member called customer service to complain, but company employees assumed the state was responsible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Your Medical Records at Risk?] Reference

WellCare health plans rose 81 cents, or 2.9%, to 28.27 after a report that a former employee of the health-plan administrator pleaded guilty in a Medicaid fraud case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morgan Stanley Sinks and BofA Loses 26%] Reference

Benefits consultants and auditors say they began receiving more inquiries from employers about health-plan audits this past October and the pace has quickened ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Bogus Beneficiaries] Reference

Among the stocks they like are health-plan providers UnitedHealth Group (UNH), WellPoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET), all of which trade at around 10 times 2008 earnings estimates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Veteran Investors' Value Picks] Reference

It said gains in its Medicare and self-insured employer businesses would be outweighed by declines in insured health-plan enrollment and the loss of a large Medicaid contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [WellPoint Net Falls, Yet Pricing,] Reference

Cigna Corp. said it will freeze its pension plan as of July 1 in a cost-cutting move as the health insurer grapples with declining health-plan enrollment and investment income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cigna Will Freeze Pension Plan to Cut Costs] Reference

Industry tells Senate panel of health-plan concerns.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Republicans may be no-shows at health-plan summit insurance rate hikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to RICHARD GORDON --> Arroyo allots House campaign time] Reference

Colorado to say it will cover 100 percent of the cost of H1N1 "swine" flu shots for all its Colorado health-plan members.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Online job activity takes step back] Reference

The member informational tool shows health-plan members details, including member identification number, group name and group number.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals] Reference

Children's health and health care disparities should be monitored and publicly disclosed annually at the federal, state, local, health-plan and institutional levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Children's health and health care disparities should be monitored and publicly disclosed annually at the federal, state, local, health-plan and institutional levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference