Hawaii Health Insurance Insider

HMSA FLU-SHOT CLINICS Nov 17th, Nov 21st

healthinsurance4u — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:24:49 +0000

Hey Oahu People, it’s Flu Season. If you need a Flu Shot HMSA will be holding clinic at Sams Club Pearl City from 10am to 2pm on November 17th , and on November 21st at Walmart over in Kahalui, Maui.

Details:

Free FOR HMSA, HMSA 65C Plus and HMSA QUEST members
as well as Medicare Part B beneficiaries

Non Member Price is $40.. Great deal if you are prone to getting the flu!

Hawaii Stops Universal child health care?

healthinsurance4u — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:16:45 +0000

Touted as once having the only Children Universal Health Insurance care in the country, Hawaii has put an end to it at the beginning of November, citing budget shortfalls as the reason. Catch the full Story Here

This does not mean that needy children cannot get covered. It is still fairly easy for economically challenged families to still get coverage for their kids without really being “poor”. The standards for getting Medquest coverage for a child is not that low, and almost any family experiencing unemployment or temporary unemployment should be able to get coverage or temporary coverage through Hawaii’s Med Quest Division.

Free Hawaii Medicare Presentation on 11/13/08 in Ewa

healthinsurance4u — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:45:29 +0000

There will be a free Hawaii Medicare presentation at the Ewa Beach Public Library at 10:30. Presenting there will be a representative from the Department of Health’s Executive Office on Aging.

Hawaii Medicare Members Beware of Phishing!

healthinsurance4u — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:40:46 +0000

Hawaii Health Insurance News! If you are a Hawaii Medicare Member be aware of fraudulent phone calls aimed at gaining your personal information. Cases show that people were called by a person claiming to be a Medicare rep and asked for personal information.. Do not be fooled. Get the whole story here.

Hawaii = Nations Highest Rate of Chronic Kidney Disease

healthinsurance4u — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:30:23 +0000

In a Story published by the Honolulu advertiser on November 10th 2008, Hawaii Has on of the lowest occurences of diabetes throughout the nation, but has the highest occurence of Chronic Kidney Disease caused by Diabetes. The need for kidney dialysis increased by 38 percent over the last 10 years. For the full details - Click here.

All Hawaii kids should Have Health Insurance!

healthinsurance4u — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:10:52 +0000

With Hawaii being so proactive in making sure all kids have have health insurance there is NO excuse for having any child or teenager age 0-19 NOT having Hawaii health insurance.

Check this link here and see why: Covering Kids and Med Quest Chart

Or go to coveringkids.com directly!

State Hospitals in Financial Trouble

healthinsurance4u — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:50:57 +0000

Full Story at Honolulu Advertiser

HHI4U BOSS Summary: June 29th, 2008: Basically Hawai’i Health Systems Corp.which runs a bunch of state hospitals told law makers that there would be service cuts and layoffs because of their financial woes. So lawmakers and Linda Lingle came to the rescue and agreed to 14 MILLLION DOLLARS in emergency spending to help the company make it thru the fiscal year. Sounds like lingle was trying to make ammends for where she fell short with Aloha Airlines. Anyway, some officials blame Health Insurance like HMSA and Medicare for not raising the amount of reinburstments the network gets back from them.

Hawaii Med Quest Case Workers

healthinsurance4u — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:01:32 +0000

My son has Hawaii Medquest Health insurance and HMSA as his carrier, and I had an issue, well actually i STILL have an issue that has spanned for about 10 months. In that time I have gone through about 5 or 6 Medquest case workers. The state of Hawaii health insurance system is messed up. I hate repeating my business and situation to every person and it just becomes tiring and frustrating.

Anybody feel my pain?

Here’s an update.. Problem still unresolved from MID 2007!!!. Im getting pretty upset. My blog has now become visible on the search engines and I am going to mention all my case workers in the blog from now on.

The Last one that i can remember is Ms. Choi. I don’t know why they go by their last name only like school teachers, but they do. Anyway I got Ms. Choi’s number from the main line and Left 4 messages for her. This was in March I believe. She calls me back a 10 days after my first call and leaves me a voicemail telling me that she is not my case worker and gives me the number of Ms. Lakuna. Ms. Lakuna never answers her phone and her voicemail is always full. It took me a good 10 days again to get a first response. When i do, she too tells me that Im not her case worker but will help me get my case resolved. So i give her a whole bunch of info, call some numbers get things verified. This whole process goes on for awhile but then 3 weeks into helping me she calls me, and says “Ive been trying but this is taking up too much of my time. Im going to give you the number of your case worker, Ms. Poliken” Are you kidding me????? Okay so it’s been 2 weeks, ive called Ms. Poliken 3 times, but only left a message once. This is sooo stupid. Ill keep you posted on how many more workers i get tossed around to.