Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler took disciplinary action in October against insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations. A summary of cases of interest to Washington consumers is below. Insurance companies UnitedHealthcare of Washington, Seattle; fined $30,000 …
If you get struck by lightning or bitten by a pig, a physician can record that information with a code shorter than your phone number. But if you can’t afford your bills, doctors and health plans have no consistent way …
A three-justice panel of the California Court of Appeal, 4th Appellate District, gas upheld Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations, which prescribe how insurance companies must process insurance claims. The regulations are also the foundation in determining …
A company spokeswoman says UnitedHealthcare is pulling out of the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace in Illinois. Maria Gordon Shydlo of UnitedHealthcare says the company will not offer individual exchange plans in the state in 2017. The company previously told …
The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) said it has received 170 proposed health insurance plan rates for review from four major insurers in advance of the fourth year of open enrollment on DC Health Link, …
They have rented offices and zero customers. All their capital is borrowed. They’re trying to sign the kind of expensive, chronically ill individuals that insurers have avoided for decades. In three weeks they face mighty competitors with a hundred times …
UnitedHealthcare and LISI, a San Mateo, Calif.-based medical insurance brokerage, are joining in a partnership to bring health benefits packages to small businesses in California. LISI will make available UnitedHealthcare health benefits products to employers with fewer than 100 employees. …
