Learn About Tableau The two insurers selling plans to Maine consumers under the Affordable Care Act want to raise rates in 2015, but well below the double-digit average hikes cropping up in some other states. The proposed rates offer a tentative first look at how much insurers seek to charge during the second year of Healthcare.gov, […]
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Maine Community Health Options to offfer plan on New Hampshire health care exchange
LEWISTON — The nonprofit health insurance cooperative Maine Community Health Options has received preliminary approval to offer its plans in four New Hampshire counties that border Maine, where the company started and has captured nearly 80 percent of the federally required health care marketplace. The New Hampshire Department of Insurance reported Monday that it licensed […]
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Lewiston startup helps rural Mainers sign up for ACA coverage
Learn About Tableau Hildegard Tenney has lived nearly all her life without health insurance. A meat cutter at a supermarket in Washington County, 51-year-old Tenney could never afford coverage, so she visited the doctor only as a last resort, when she could scrape up enough cash to pay out of pocket for the visit. “There […]
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Lewiston-based health insurer finds success with ACA
AUGUSTA — Consumers signing up for health insurance on the marketplaces created under President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law have consistently turned to big-name insurers over smaller nonprofits and startups. But Maine has gone the other way, with a vast majority of residents putting their trust in the new co-op Maine Community Health Options […]
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Maine groups busy on last day for insurance sign-ups
LEWISTON — By midmorning Monday, the state’s only health insurance co-op was getting so many calls — How do I get insurance by the deadline? Did the federal marketplace send over my sign-up information yet? How do I make a payment? — that its CEO grabbed a free desk and started answering phones. So did […]
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Maine health insurance signups skyrocket
The number of Mainers signing up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act skyrocketed last month, and most are middle-aged or older, according to new federal figures released Monday that for the first time include demographic data key to the law’s insurance overhaul. Since the launch of healthcare.gov on Oct. 1, 2013, through Dec. […]
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Lewiston company draws majority of Mainers signing up on federal health insurance website
LEWISTON — Almost three-quarters of Mainers signing up for insurance on the federal Health Insurance Marketplace are doing so with a Lewiston-based company, Maine Community Health Options. Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, the HealthCare.gov website hosted 1,747 Mainers who signed up for plans, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Health and […]
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Cori joins MCHO
LEWISTON — Kevin Lewis, CEO of Maine Community Health Options, recently announced that LuAnne Cori has joined the organization as a provider relations representative. MCHO is a nonprofit organization that will provide affordable health insurance to Maine people and small businesses. MCHO plans became available for enrollment on Oct. 1 for coverage beginning as early […]
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Lewiston health insurance co-op wants to add large businesses
LEWISTON — Weeks after it started selling health insurance to individuals and small businesses, Maine Community Health Options wants to add large businesses to the mix. The head of MCHO, a new Lewiston-based health insurance co-op, says it has applied to the Maine Bureau of Insurance for permission to insure groups of more than 50 […]
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Grenier joins MCHO
LEWISTON — Kevin Lewis, CEO of Maine Community Health Options, recently announced that Nancy Grenier, RN, has joined the organization as manager of care coordination. MCHO is a nonprofit organization that will provide affordable health insurance to Maine people and small businesses. MCHO plans became available for enrollment on Oct. 1 for coverage beginning as […]