LEWISTON — Community Health Options has announced that three new board directors begin their terms in 2016, accompanied by three formation board directors who were elected to the board. These are the newly elected 2016 board directors: Angela Berry is human resource manager for East Branch Delivery Service. She was the first female in the […]
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Community Health Options to suspend sales of individual health plans
LEWISTON — Community Health Options, Maine’s only health insurance co-op, will suspend sales of new individual insurance plans for 2016. No new individual plans will be sold on the insurer’s website after Dec. 15. No new individual Community Health Options plans will be sold through the federal marketplace, HealthCare.gov, after Dec. 26. The move does […]
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Lewiston’s Community Health Options running a deficit
LEWISTON — For the first time since it began selling health insurance two years ago, the state’s only insurance co-op is losing money. Community Health Options said Wednesday that it posted a deficit for the third quarter of 2015. It projects an $18 million shortfall by the end of the year. The co-op budgeted $334 […]
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Obama administration defends troubled health care co-ops
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration defended the health care law’s struggling insurance co-ops Tuesday, suggesting to Congress that cutbacks demanded by lawmakers themselves put added pressure on an altruistic alternative to mega-insurers. State regulators have ordered 11 of the 23 nonprofit co-ops shut down over solvency concerns, forcing several hundred thousand customers to seek new […]
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Lewiston’s Community Health Options not among the co-ops closing
LEWISTON — Nearly half of the country’s health insurance co-ops have shut down or plan to by the end of the year, most after getting word this month that they wouldn’t receive the millions in federal money they expected. They realized they could not afford to stay in business. But the head of Community Health […]
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Community Health Options to give rebates
LEWISTON — Maine Community Health Options, the state’s only health insurance co-op, is issuing more than $3.3 million to individuals and families who were policyholders last year. Rebates will equal 2.1 percent of total health insurance premiums paid for the year. Amounts will vary, but the average rebate will be $87. The Affordable Care Act, […]
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Kevin Lewis talks about Community Health Options
Instead it got more than 40,000. Today, the health insurance co-op has over 72,000 members, operates in two states and is considered one of the most successful insurance co-ops in the country. And it did it by being different: Offering free care to people with chronic disease, providing case management and free or low-cost mental […]
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CHO names Voisine to post
PORTLAND — Rodney J. Voisine, MD, has been named associate chief medical officer at Community Health Options, Maine’s first nonprofit, consumer-operated and oriented health insurance plan. Voisine is board certified in anesthesiology and obesity medicine, and holds degrees in pharmacy and medicine. He maintains an active practice in South Portland and Augusta, and is a […]
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Community Health Options to sell health plans in New Hampshire
LEWISTON — Maine Community Health Options is offering health insurance plans throughout New Hampshire in 2015, expanding ahead of schedule after being approved for a $67 million loan from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The insurance cooperative’s proposed plans have been approved by the New Hampshire Insurance Department and are under review […]