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Connecticut’s 2017 Health Insurance Rates Expected to Rise
Sep 6 2016 // Tens of thousands of Connecticut health insurance consumers will still see double-digit increases in their 2017 rates, even though the state’s Department of Insurance has denied some rate requests filed by health...
New Hampshire Encourages Proper Coverage for College Students This Fall
Aug 31 2016 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department is advocating that families sending students to college get the right insurance coverage for their children. “We recommend that when college students and their families prepare...
Hospital Surgery Rates for Workers’ Compensation Vary Widely
Aug 30 2016 // Hospital rates for outpatient surgery paid by workers’ compensation vary significantly across states with states with fixed fee schedules having lower surgery costs for injured workers. Workers compensation costs for...
Chile’s Health Insurers Pushed to Brink of Collapse as Courts Prevent Rate Hikes
Aug 12 2016 // Chile’s private health insurers have a peculiar problem. Every time they try to raise their premiums, thousands of their clients take them to court to stop the increase — and win. Their inability to raise fees...
New York Regulator Has ‘Significant Concerns’ About Anthem-Cigna Merger
Aug 4 2016 // New York’s insurance regulator has “significant concerns” about Anthem Inc.’s proposed $48 billion acquisition of rival health insurer Cigna Corp. and will hold a hearing to address them before...
Premium Hikes of Up to 45% Sought by Illinois Health Insurers
Aug 3 2016 // Health insurance premiums for Illinois residents who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace could increase by as much as 45 percent according to proposals submitted by insurers and made public on...
Zenefits Settles With Tennessee Over Unlicensed Health Insurance Sales
Jul 26 2016 // Zenefits reached its first settlement with a state government over its use of unlicensed health insurance brokers, an issue that prompted investigations in at least three other states and led its founding chief executive...
Texas Attorney: Information-Heavy Healthcare a Huge Target for Cyber Crime
Jul 25 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Healthcare organizations contain a wealth of personal information, making them them the number one target for cyber breaches, according to a Houston-based attorney who specializes in...
Health Insurers Could Go on Buying Spree If Big Mergers Blocked
Jul 25 2016 // The potential bust-up of two mega deals among America’s largest health insurance companies may have an unintended result – more mergers. The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued to block Aetna...
Illinois Moves to Shut Down Health Insurance Co-Op
Jul 25 2016 // Illinois insurance regulators are seeking the rehabilitation of a failing health insurance co-op that the department previously attempted to rescue. Anne Melissa Dowling, Acting Director of the Illinois Department of...
U.S. Expected to Sue to Stop Anthem, Aetna Deals
Jul 20 2016 // U.S. antitrust officials are poised to file lawsuits to block Anthem Inc.’s takeover of rival health-insurer Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc.’s deal to buy Humana Inc., according to a person familiar with the...
Insurer Competition Vital for Healthcare Consumers: U.S. Health Official
Jul 18 2016 // The Obama administration’s top health official highlighted the importance of competition to insurance markets, as the Justice Department is poised to decide on two massive deals among four of the health-plan...
Failing Illinois Health Insurance Co-Op to Be Shut Down
Jul 14 2016 // An Illinois health insurance co-op with 49,000 policyholders in the state has become the latest casualty among a dwindling group of nonprofit alternative insurers set up under the Affordable Care Act. Illinois regulators...
Michigan Seeks Comment on Proposed Health Insurance Rate Changes
Jul 12 2016 // State insurance regulators are seeking public comment on requested health insurance policy rate changes. The Department of Insurance and Financial Services said that insurers’ proposed changes for individual rates in...
New York Gives Aetna-Humana Merger Green Light with Conditions
Jul 12 2016 // New York’s insurance regulator has conditionally approved Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion takeover of Humana Inc., one of the last state sign-offs needed for the deal, people familiar with the matter said. The...
Connecticut Places ‘Unsteady’ Health Insurance Startup Under Supervision
Jul 11 2016 // Connecticut’s insurance commissioner announced Tuesday that nonprofit health insurer HealthyCT must be placed under state supervision to protect the company’s 40,000 policyholders. Commissioner Katharine Wade...
Information-Heavy Healthcare a Huge Target for Cyber Crime
Jul 11 2016 // Healthcare organizations contain a wealth of personal information, making them them the number one target for cyber breaches, according to a Houston-based attorney who specializes in healthcare privacy. Lynn Sessions, a...
Illinois Stepping in to Help Struggling Insurance Co-Op
Jul 8 2016 // The state of Illinois has tried an unusual maneuver to save a health insurer with 49,000 Illinois policyholders from possible financial failure by blocking it from paying a $31.8 million bill to the federal...
Justice Department Has ‘Significant Concerns’ with Aetna-Humana Marriage
Jul 8 2016 // The U.S. Department of Justice has significant concerns about Aetna Inc’s proposed acquisition of health insurer Humana Inc., a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday, sending shares of Humana down as...
DataPath Launches System to Monitor Workers’ Comp Medicare Settlement Funds
Jul 5 2016 // DataPath, a payment processor and provider, has launched RelianceCard, a card-based payment option for workers’ compensation Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) arrangements. The customizable card provides MSA recipients access...
