Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurers’ Payments to Reduce Players’ Benefit from NFL Concussion Deal
Apr 27 2015 // Nearly a fifth of the National Football League settlement approved last week compensating former players with head injuries could go to their health insurers instead. As a result of federal laws and court rulings enabling...
Court Blocks Parts of Restrictive Missouri Healthcare Navigator Law
Apr 20 2015 // An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. The 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis...
Missouri Lawsuit Targets Anthem Insurance Subsidiaries
Apr 15 2015 // A Missouri lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses three insurance subsidiaries of failing to safeguard sensitive consumer data from hackers who recently breached health insurer Anthem Inc.’s computer networks. A...
Court Blocks Parts of Restrictive Missouri Health Care Navigator Law
Apr 13 2015 // An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law — a ruling that advocates say...
Connecticut Fee Schedule for Hospitals, ASCs Takes Effect
Apr 10 2015 // Connecticut’s Medicare-based fee schedule for workers’ compensation involving hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services went into effect April 1. Previously, there...
Supreme Court Turns Down ‘Death Panel’ Challenge
Mar 30 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it...
Four Health Insurers Fined $280K in Maryland
Mar 23 2015 // Four health insurance companies paid a combined $280,000 in fines to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) for selling unapproved health insurance plans to college students in Maryland, regulators announced on March...
Insurers, Drugmakers Tussle Over Drug Copay Caps
Mar 13 2015 // The battle over soaring U.S. drug prices is heading for the states. With the price of some treatments topping $100,000, patient groups are pushing for state laws to make sure insurers cover most of the costs. Their...
4 Health Insurers Fined $280K in Md. for Selling Unapproved Student Plans
Mar 10 2015 // Four health insurance companies paid a combined $280,000 in fines to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) for selling unapproved health insurance plans to college students in Maryland, regulators announced last...
Affordable Care Act Cost Estimate Drops Due to Lower Subsidies, Enrollment
Mar 10 2015 // U.S. Congressional forecasters on Monday once again cut their estimate of Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage costs, citing unexpectedly less spending on premium subsidies and lower enrollment rates through...
Ohio Democrats Want State to Create Health Insurance Exchange
Mar 6 2015 // Democratic lawmakers in Ohio want the state to consider creating its own health insurance exchange as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law. People can find health...
High Stakes in Today’s Supreme Court Case on Obamacare Subsidies
Mar 4 2015 // U.S. hospital companies and health insurers face the highest corporate stakes when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday to decide the fate of Obamacare’s subsidies that help people buy health coverage. Since...
States Have No Plans If Health Insurance Subsidies End
Feb 27 2015 // Millions of people could lose health insurance subsidies in the coming months if the Supreme Court sides with opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. And one thing was clear last weekend as the...
Emerging Markets Private Health Premiums to Double: Swiss Re Report
Feb 25 2015 // In a new sigma report, the first for 2015 Swiss Re concludes that “demand and expectations for better healthcare services are rising in the emerging markets,” and that as a result it expects “premiums for...
U.S. Sends Wrong Health Tax Information
Feb 23 2015 // The U.S. said it sent 800,000 Americans incorrect information that may affect how much they owe in taxes this year because of subsidies they got to help pay for health insurance under Obamacare. People affected by the...
What Will States Do If Court Kills Health Insurance Subsidies?
Feb 19 2015 // Five Republican state governors say they will not rescue a crucial part of Obamacare if it is struck down by the Supreme Court, underlining the prospect for a chaotic aftermath to a ruling that could force millions of...
Use of Data and Analytics in Workers’ Compensation
Feb 12 2015 // In the workers’ compensation space, not only have claim costs increased because of medical issues, but the landscape has also become much more complex. Along with the elevated incidence of fraud, economic fears, and...
Obama Blasts Firms Using Health Insurance As Excuse to Cut Wages
Feb 11 2015 // U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply giant Staples Inc. as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the...
Health Insurer Anthem Hit with Cyber Attack
Feb 5 2015 // Hackers have stolen personal information relating to current and former customers and staff of no. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc., after breaching an IT system containing data on up to 80 million people, the company...
Health and Wellness Consultant Peter Mangiola Helps Consumers Maximize Health Insurance Benefits
Feb 3 2015 // Health and Wellness Expert Peter Mangiola R.N. MSN Has Launched a New Jersey Consultancy Focused on Helping Consumers Gain Access to the Resources Necessary to Prevent and Treat Health Issues Medford, NJ, February 3, 2015:...
