Posts Tagged ‘children’

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Michigan health insurance program for children, MI Child is teaming up with the YMCA to create awareness.

Over 150,000 children are without individual health insurance coverage. Most families are unaware of MI Child and the state feels it must increase awareness of the program.

The Michigan health insurance is available for children under 19 with families that will fit into certain income guidelines.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

67,000 children enrolled in the Mississippi health insurance CHIP program transferred to United Health Care at the beginning of the year. United Health Care has 133 hospitals and nearly 10,000 health care professionals in their Mississippi network. The contract length is four years with an option to renew for the fifth year at the option of the state.

Mississippi health insurance advocates are particularly interested in the United Health HEROES program that addresses childhood obesity. This will allow the state to reduce the amount of obesity in children and make for healthier living.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Childhood obesity is becoming a problem and Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona health insurance is making efforts to change the outcome. Almost a third of the state’s children are overweight or obese.

Therefore, Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona health insurance created the Walk On! Challenge. An initiative to get children to exercise 60 minutes per day. The carrier has seen great success this year enrolling over 30,000 fifth graders at a total of 280 schools across the state.

Including fun with the program, Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona health insurance gives away free electronics to children that follow important tasks such as, walking 60 minutes every day in the month of February.