On Friday, Aetna Inc (NYSE:AET)’s shares inclined 2.44% to $105.88.
Individuals and employers in Illinois looking for a new health plan will have access to greater choice during this year’s open enrollment. Aetna (NYSE: AET) declared that Aetna Whole Health Chicago will be accessible on GetCoveredIllinois for the 2016 open enrollment commencing November 1, in addition to Illinois businesses.
Aetna Whole Health Chicago is a commercial health care product that provides members with access to highly coordinated care that tracks outcomes, shares data and measures clinical standards to improve quality and efficiency. It provides consumers with more options on GetCoveredIllinois.
Individuals can purchase Aetna Whole Health Chicago as of November 1. Self-insured businesses looking to change plans from March 1, 2016 onwards and fully insured businesses looking to change plans from April 1, 2016 onwards can buy Aetna Whole Health Chicago as of January 1. It will be accessible to employers in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, Kendall, Will, Kankakee, McHenry and individual members in DuPage, Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties.
Aetna Inc. operates as a health care benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Health Care, Group Insurance, and Large Case Pensions. The Health Care segment offers medical, pharmacy benefit administration services, dental, behavioral health, and vision plans on an insured basis, and an employer-funded or administrative basis.
Express Scripts Holding Company (NASDAQ:ESRX)’s shares gained 2.93% to $85.11.
Express Scripts (ESRX) declared that its nationally accessible Express Scripts Medicare® Prescription Drug Plans (PDP) have earned a 4-Star* quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the second successive year.
Each year, CMS rates the relative quality of the private plans that are offered to Medicare beneficiaries on a scale of one to five, with five stars representing the highest quality**. To determine the ratings, CMS conducts a thorough evaluation of the plan across broad categories such as customer service, patient safety and feedback from beneficiaries presently using the plan. The summary score provides an unbiased, overall measure of a plan’s quality.
Care, Convenience and Cost Savings
Express Scripts 2016 Medicare Value and Choice plans offer many ways for retirees to save on their prescription medications, offering $0 or $1 copayments, respectively, for 31- and 90- day supplies of Tier 1 generic medications when using one of the more than 28,000 pharmacies in the plans’ preferred pharmacy network. The network comprises more than 8,200 Walgreens pharmacies nationwide and more than 20,059 community pharmacies. For Tier 2 generics, retirees can save up to 40 percent on co-pays in the Value plan, or up to 75 percent on co-pays in the Choice plan when using the preferred pharmacy network. Both plans offer noteworthy discounts on preferred and non-preferred brand name medications in the preferred pharmacy network as well, and access to a broader network of more than 66,000 retail pharmacies nationwide.
Express Scripts Holding Company operates as a pharmacy benefit administration (PBM) company in the United States and Canada. The company operates through two segments, PBM and Other Business Operations.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS)‘s shares dipped -3.51% to $42.02.
DICK’S Sporting Goods (DKS), will be opening its ninth store in Oklahoma and 641st store nationwide on Friday, October 30th at Three Rivers Plaza in Muskogee, OK (701 West Shawnee Avenue).
DICK’S three-day grand opening celebration will run through Sunday, November 1st. The store will open at 8:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 9:00 a.m. Sunday.
On Friday, the first 100 people in line will be eligible for a free Reebok Play Dry® T-Shirt. Guests who are in line at 7:45 a.m. on Friday will get a chance to open the DICK’S Sporting Goods Gift Locker.*
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. operates as a sporting goods retailer primarily in the eastern United States. The company provides hardlines, counting sporting goods equipment, fitness equipment, golf equipment, and hunting and fishing gear products; apparel; and footwear products and accessories.