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Teamsters trust signs with HMA

Health Management Associates Inc. said yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to provide healthcare and benefit claims administration services for the 8,000 members of the Hawaii Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust.

Terms and value of the deal were not disclosed. Mark Dyer, president and chief executive of HMA, said the trust also will use HMA's Health Management Network, a statewide preferred-provider organization.

Hunting, fishing worth $130M

About 150,000 anglers and 17,000 hunters spent $130 million in Hawai'i last year in pursuit of their pastime, which supported 2,300 jobs in the state, according to figures released yesterday by the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation and the National Shooting Sports Foundation to accompany a national report on the economic impact of such sports. (More information available at www.sportsmenslink.org.)

Melinda Gable, executive director of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, said Hawai'i sportsmen annually spend more than the value of the state's pineapple crop.