Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Commish Green Lights Aetna-Humana Acquisition, Florida Approves Deal
Feb 18 2016 // Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard. The order approving the request...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover Millions for Consumers, Schools in 2015
Feb 9 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it helped to obtain millions of dollars for citizens and schools in 2015 through regulatory intervention and penalties against insurance companies. The department also worked...
12.7 Million Sign Up for Coverage on Health Insurance Exchanges: HHS
Feb 5 2016 // About 12.7 million Americans signed up for 2016 health insurance coverage through the government insurance exchanges, surpassing its expectations, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on...
Health Insurers in Kansas Support Network-Only Plan Proposal
Feb 1 2016 // Insurance providers have asked Kansas lawmakers to approve a measure that would allow them to offer health plans requiring customers to only use the insurers’ network. The plans are called Exclusive Provider...
Munich Re Raises Shareholding in India’s Apollo Munich Health Insurance
Jan 26 2016 // Munich Re will acquire an additional 23.27 percent of shares of Apollo Munich Health Insurance Co. Ltd., from its joint venture partner, the Apollo Hospitals Group, India, increasing its shareholding from 25.5 percent to...
15 State AGs Join Federal Antitrust Probe of Giant Health Insurers’ Mergers: Reuters
Jan 12 2016 // About 15 state attorneys general have joined the Justice Department’s probe of two big insurance mergers, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing the scrutiny on proposed deals that would reduce the...
Mass. Consumers, Businesses to Pay More for Health Insurance in 2016
Jan 7 2016 // Massachusetts consumers and businesses are expected to pay more for health insurance in 2016. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s biggest commercial insurer, is raising premiums an average of 5...
Obama to Veto Affordable Care Act Repeal Passed by Congress
Jan 7 2016 // The House voted Wednesday to repeal most of Obamacare, sending legislation to President Barack Obama for the first time that would dismantle his biggest domestic policy achievement. The 240-181 House vote, following Senate...
Mass. Health Insurers Partner With Police to Help Heroin Addicts
Jan 6 2016 // Health insurers in Massachusetts are pitching in to help the Gloucester Police Department with their well-known program to get heroin addicts into treatment. Under a pilot program launched Monday, members of the...
New York Law Expands Health Insurance Enrollment for Pregnancy
Jan 4 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation to expand health insurance access to pregnant New Yorkers. The measure, signed by Cuomo on Dec. 22, would permit pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance...
Governor Signs Wisconsin Health Insurance Oversight Bill
Dec 21 2015 // Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that gives the Legislature’s budget committee oversight of any contract moving Wisconsin public workers into a self-insurance system. The governor signed the bill privately on Dec....
Ohioans Entitled to More Information Under Health Insurance Rule
Dec 16 2015 // Ohioans will be able to get more information about healthcare provider networks from health insurance companies beginning in 2016. The rule taking effect in January will require insurance companies to update their...
Once Profitable, Maine’s Community Health Option Is Now Losing Millions
Dec 15 2015 // The lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016. Maine’s Community...
Obamacare Turns to Start-Ups to Boost Enrollment in Marketplaces
Dec 8 2015 // Two health-care startups will work with the White House to boost the number of Americans who obtain insurance through marketplaces created under Obamacare. ZocDoc Inc. and Oscar Health Insurance Corp. are providing free...
Health Insurers to Rebate More Than $2M to Delaware Consumers
Dec 7 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that insurers will issue more than $2 million in rebates to 14,399 health insurance policyholders in Delaware as a result of the Affordable Care Act’s...
Mass. AG Announces $209K Settlement With American Fidelity Assurance
Dec 4 2015 // American Fidelity Assurance Company (AFA), a life and health insurance company based in Oklahoma City, has agreed to pay $209,000 to settle allegations that it failed to cover mandated benefits required by state law and...
Arkansas Gov. Replaces Health Insurance Exchanges Board Members
Dec 3 2015 // Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has replaced the chairman and one other member of a state board that establishes health insurance exchanges for small-business employees and individual consumers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
N.H. to Examine Health Insurers’ Substance Abuse Treatment Coverage
Dec 1 2015 // New Hampshire’s Insurance Department is examining whether insurance companies are appropriately covering substance abuse services as required by law. The probe comes as New Hampshire seeks to expand treatment and...
Health Insurers in Arkansas Owed More than $7.1M in Rebates for 2014
Nov 23 2015 // Arkansas consumers and businesses are owed more than $7.1 million from health insurers because those companies collected too much in premiums last year than what they spent on medical care, according to federal...
Avera Health Buying Health Insurer, DAKOTACARE
Nov 20 2015 // Regional health system Avera Health is buying the DAKOTACARE health insurance company, creating what it says will be the second-largest health insurer in South Dakota. The two Sioux Falls-based companies announced their...
