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Five Catholic Charities NH skilled nursing facilities receive national customer experience award
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (366+ words) Five Catholic Charities NH skilled nursing facilities have received a 2026 Customer Experience Award from Activated Insights, a national benchmark of quality customer service within the senior care industry, solidifying their position in the top echelon of care providers nationwide. Five…...
Dr. Andrew J. Schuman: My grassroots attempt to reinvent health care
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (902+ words) ON OCTOBER 18th I attended the Union Leader's Silver Linings Senior Healthy Living Expo. There were hundreds of elders and their families visiting more than 40 booths promoting a variety of services, including hearing aid fittings, medical equipment and specialized telephones, as…...
D.J. Bettencourt: Medicare Advantage changes continue, here's what seniors need to know
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (766+ words) FOR MANY New Hampshire seniors, Medicare Advantage has become an important part of their health coverage. It is not the right fit for everyone " some prefer the flexibility of Original Medicare, but for tens of thousands of Granite Staters it…...
Seniors with Medicare Advantage scrambling as market dramatically shrinks
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1179+ words) Roughly 85% of all New Hampshire residents with Medicare Advantage plans will soon have six weeks to find different health care coverage as two major insurers are leaving the market and a third significantly reduces its reach. State Insurance Commissioner D.J. Bettencourt…...
NH's Medicare Advantage market is 'collapsing,' commissioner says
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (795+ words) Insurance Commissioner D.J. Bettencourt, center inset, briefed a House committee Wednesday that the Medicare Advantage insurance market for seniors will see major disruption in the coming months as some major players exit the market. The state's insurance commissioner said the Medicare…...
Roger Sevigny, John Elias, Chris Nicolopoulos: Leadership means telling the truth, even when it hurts
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (877+ words) AS FORMER New Hampshire insurance commissioners, we know firsthand how difficult " and emotionally charged " decisions around long-term care (LTC) insurance rate increases can be. These are not abstract policy debates; they affect real people who spent decades planning for their…...
Harold Sullivan: Long-term care hikes went too far
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1067+ words) Their op-ed claimed I propose having owners of other lines of insurance absorb the cost of the long-term care losses. Let's look at MetLife, which chose to stop selling life, disability, home and auto, annuities, and even investment products in…...
SolutionHealth submits plan for Manchester, Nashua providers split up
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (503+ words) Southern New Hampshire Health CEO Colin McHugh, right, speaks during a public listening session in Manchester in April about the proposal to end a seven-year-old partnership with Elliot Health System, run by Dr. Greg Baxter, left. Board members for SolutionHealth,…...
US accuses health insurers, brokers of Medicare Advantage kickback scheme
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (204+ words) The Department of Justice accused three of the nation's largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans. The Department of Justice accused three…...
When hospitals ditch Medicare Advantage plans, thousands of members get to leave, too
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1451+ words) For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary's home in Dallas. When Fred Neary's five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health…...