The fourth largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage health plan in the U.S. is partnering with the American Cancer Society to provide its more than 130,000 members in California with cancer prevention and early detection messages.

Before this blog posting starts getting comments from those who state that I am “anti-woman” or don’t care about the devastation wrought by breast cancer, let me state emphatically: I …  Read →

A Maryland House member is trying to preserve insurance coverage for early breast cancer screenings in the wake of a November 2009 report that disputed the usefulness of those tests.

Marylanders will not see any immediate changes to their health insurance coverage in light of the new breast cancer screening recommendations, health officials and insurance companies said.