Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts AG Healey Announces $430K Settlement With AIG Subsidiary
Sep 16 2015 // The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania (ICSOP), a subsidiary of the American International Group (AIG), has agreed to pay $430,000 to settle allegations that it sold unauthorized health insurance to...
New York Health Insurer’s Data Breach Puts 10M Records at Risk
Sep 11 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to show...
Penn. to Hold Hearing on Balance Billing of Health Insurance Consumers
Sep 10 2015 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller announced that her department will hold a public hearing on the issue of “balance billing” of health insurance consumers. Balance billing occurs when a patient...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
Louisiana Regulators Take Over Health Insurance CO-OP
Sep 2 2015 // The 19th Judicial District Court granted an Order of Rehabilitation and Injunctive Relief giving Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon possession and control of the Louisiana Health Cooperative Inc. (LAHC, aka CO-OP), the...
R.I. AG Sues Health Insurance Commissioner Over 10% Blue Cross Rate Hike
Sep 2 2015 // Rhode Island’s attorney general has sued the state’s health insurance commissioner for allowing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to hike premiums for some residents 10 percent. Attorney General Peter...
300K Massachusetts Resident to See Their Health Insurance Rates Jump 6%
Aug 30 2015 // About 300,000 Massachusetts residents who buy their own health insurance or work for small businesses are about to see their premiums jump more than 6 percent on average. The increase approved by the state Division of...
Walker’s Proposed Health Insurance Plan Features Tax Credits
Aug 19 2015 // Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s plan for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law would extend refundable tax credits to help pay for private health insurance based...
Missouri Fines Health Insurer Cigna for Various Violations
Aug 14 2015 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has fined Cigna subsidiaries $140,800 for using unapproved forms, incorrectly denying chiropractic claims, charging copayments of more than 50 percent and failing to send an explanation...
Blue Cross Seeks 34% Rate Hike in North Carolina for ACA Plans
Aug 13 2015 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says higher-than-anticipated costs after two years of selling federally subsidized coverage has forced it to seek premium increases even greater than it thought would be...
Survey: How Health Insurance Brokers, Navigators Perform Under Obamacare
Aug 12 2015 // Insurance brokers play an important role in helping people obtain non-group health insurance from the health insurance marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tend to serve different people than...
Delaware Opts Against Setting Up State Health Insurance Exchange
Aug 10 2015 // Delaware officials have decided not to develop the state’s own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act and instead will keep the current federal partnership model. Delaware was granted approval in...
Louisiana Health Insurance Co-op to Shut Down Voluntarily
Aug 3 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down. Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for its approximately 17,000 policyholders. It...
South Florida a Haven for All Types of Fraud
Jul 31 2015 // Need a phony ID? A fraudulent tax refund? Insurance money from a sham car crash? Florida may have just what you’re looking for. Since the first settlers hacked their way into the mangrove tangles and drained much of...
Hospitals, Drugmakers Could Follow Health Insurer Mergers
Jul 28 2015 // Anthem Inc’s decision to buy Cigna Corp., forming the largest U.S. health insurer by membership, will likely speed consolidation across the healthcare industry, from hospitals to drugmakers. Anthem announced its...
Louisiana Health Insurance Co-op to Shut Down Voluntarily
Jul 27 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down. Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for the approximately 17,000 individuals that...
Anthem to Buy Cigna, Creating Largest U.S. Health Insurer by Membership
Jul 24 2015 // Anthem Inc. said on Friday it would buy Cigna Corp in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer by membership. The deal – the biggest ever in the health insurance industry – comes...
Supreme Court Opinion to Have No Effect on Health Insurers: S&P
Jul 6 2015 // The Supreme Court opinion upholding current tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not have any impact on rated U.S. not-for-profit and for-profit health insurance firms because it continues the current...
Regulatory Review of Aetna’s Humana Deal Could Affect Other Insurer Deals
Jul 5 2015 // Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion deal to buy smaller health insurer Humana Inc. will face rigorous scrutiny from U.S. regulators, which antitrust experts said could also make other large-scale mergers in the sector more...
Affordable Care Act Attracting Younger, Healthier Insureds
Jul 1 2015 // Obamacare is attracting younger and healthier people to its coverage plans this year, according to research by Express Scripts Holding Co., a trend that could help balance and sustain the law’s insurance...
