June 19, 2013
Months after customers blasted the company for skyrocketing rates, Iowa’s dominant health insurer says it will limit premium increases in 2014 to less than six percent for individual and small business policyholders. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced on …
June 10, 2013
Fourteen health insurance companies have filed to offer plans through a new Michigan insurance market being created under the federal health care law. The state Department of Insurance and Financial Services says it received filing information from 13 insurers wanting …
June 5, 2013
Four insurance companies plan to sell their policies to more than 500,000 Arkansas residents through an online marketplace created under the federal health care law, the state Insurance Department announced. The department said four companies sent letters by the June …
June 5, 2013
With just four months to go before Minnesota’s health insurance exchange goes live, it remains to be seen how many new choices consumers will get. The companies that will offer competing plans via MNsure haven’t been announced. But three health …
February 5, 2013
New York has started recruiting insurance companies to provide coverage through the New York Health Benefit Exchange created under national health care reforms. The exchange says that plans must provide comprehensive health insurance coverage, follow limits on out-of-pocket expenses and …
September 7, 2012
The state of Kansas needs to decide soon what services it will provide in a health insurance exchange required by the federal health care law, even if the future of the exchanges hinges on the outcome of the presidential election, …
May 18, 2012
South Dakota has been awarded a $5.9 million federal grant to continue research into the possibility of a state-run health insurance exchange. But Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the state will continue to wait for the outcome of the lawsuit challenging …
February 24, 2012
A legislative committee has recommended that Oklahoma create its own health insurance exchange so the federal government doesn’t establish one for it instead. Rep. Glen Mulready, R-Tulsa, said the exchange is a proactive choice, though he said he is hopeful …
February 14, 2012
Westchester, Ill.-based American Westbrook Insurance announced it has launched a national private health insurance exchange. The individual insurance exchange serves members in more than 40 states and offers products and services from more than 15 insurance companies, the company’s announcement …
January 30, 2012
The federal government has rejected a request by Texas to be excluded from a new law that limits how much health insurance companies can spend on overhead. The law is part of the Affordable Care Act, changes made in federal …