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AmeriHealth New Jersey Rolls Out New Lower-Cost Health Plans.


New and Improved Small Employer Group employer group Association of employers Managed care An entity with a current group benefits agreement in effect with a health plan to provide covered health care services to its employee-subscribers and eligible dependents.  Options Give More Choice to NJ Businesses

Lower-Cost Options Custom-Designed for NJ Employers

ISELIN, N.J. -- AmeriHealth New Jersey today announced the introduction of new and improved health plans specifically for New Jersey small employers. Designed for companies with two to 50 employees, these plans provide lower-cost alternatives for employers seeking to reduce their health care expenses. These plans are available July 1, 2007.

The features of the new plans include:

* Deductible and coinsurance A provision of an insurance policy that provides that the insurance company and the insured will apportion between them any loss covered by the policy according to a fixed percentage of the value for which the property, or the person, is insured.  HMO HMO health maintenance organization.

HMO
n.
A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial,
 options with lower out-of-pocket maximums

* Prescription coverage equal to out-of-network deductible and coinsurance available with POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
 designs

* Lower price points

* Access to New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 doctors and specialists with more POS Plus plans

"AmeriHealth is committed to providing new solutions to meet employers' demand for affordable access to quality physicians," said Michael Munoz, VP of Sales at AmeriHealth New Jersey. "These new plans expand choice and lower costs for employers and plan members. As a health insurance company focused on New Jersey, AmeriHealth knows how to provide our state's employers with the right plan and the right price and we're doing it right now."

Complete information about health plans offered by AmeriHealth New Jersey is available at: http://www.amerihealth.com/health_plans/index.html

About AmeriHealth New Jersey:

AmeriHealth HMO Inc. and AmeriHealth Insurance Company of New Jersey, collectively known as AmeriHealth New Jersey, provide health care coverage to nearly 265,000 New Jersey residents. The company has built credentialed hospital and physician networks for its managed care products, with thousands of physicians and more than 100 hospitals throughout its service areas. AmeriHealth New Jersey has offices in Mt. Laurel and Iselin.

AmeriHealth New Jersey is part of AmeriHealth, Inc, a growing group of insurance and health care companies whose product portfolio includes health insurance, workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. , property and casualty, and management services. With its base centered in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, AmeriHealth companies have been recognized for their commitment to providing high quality products. AmeriHealth HMO of New Jersey and Delaware's AmeriHealth HMO have received the highest possible accreditation by the national leader in HMO quality evaluation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical practice A private, not-for-profit organization which has become the leading accreditor of managed care plans; in site visits, NCQA reviewers evaluate a managed care plan in terms of quality management, physicians'  (NCQA NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance, see there ) has awarded both HMOs "Excellent" status for meeting its rigorous evaluation standards.
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