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Discusses large health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers by enrollment, revenue, and chief executive officer compensation.

Discusses value based insurance design, a health insurance model that promotes the use of high value health services by decreasing insureds' out-of-pocket costs.

Annual update examining changes and trends in the eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures and cost-sharing practices in Medicaid and SCHIP.

Discusses public and private health insurance options for a person under 65 who is not eligible for Medicare or under a spouse's plan.

Summarizes Switzerland's consumer-driven health care as described in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) volume, the status of such plans in the United States, and results of UnitedHealth Group's iPlan study of consumer-driven health plans.

Discusses whether the Department of Defense regional managed care program TRICARE is available to state employees who are activated reservists or National Guard members and their spouses and dependent minor children, and if TRICARE benefits are the same as state employee benefits.

Discusses what the gaps in health care delivery for seniors are and what the state and federal government are doing to address them.

Discusses whether the military health plan TRICARE covers people eligible for Medicare due to disability and the spouse and minor dependent children of military service members killed on active duty.

Discusses whether health insurance policies or plans cover medical care when the insured is in a foreign country. Also discusses whether Italy's national health insurance plan covers the expenses associated with the birth of a child by one of its citizens while visiting here.

Discusses reasonably priced health insurance plan, available to an individual who is receiving social security disability benefits.

Discusses the concept of community benefits as it applies to managed care organizations.

Summarizes Genetic information and health insurance : report of the Task Force on Genetic Information and Insurance, published May 10, 1993 by the National Center for Human Genome Research.

Discusses differences between health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and traditional for-profit insurers. Also discusses how HMOs are regulated.

Discusses medical procedures covered by Medicare part B, including a state-by-state breakdown.

Discusses whether the Medical Information Bureau maintains and reports HIV and AIDS-related information to insurers, whether this information is confidential, and what underwriting decisions insurers can lawfully make based on this information.