Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Number of Carriers in Missouri’s Health Insurance Marketplace to Double
Sep 25 2014 // Missouri could have twice as many health insurers participating next year in a federally run website. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says eight insurers plan to offer policies for 2015 on Missouri’s...
Kansas City Medical Center to Stop Refusing Health Insurance for Crash Injuries
Sep 22 2014 // Truman Medical Center in Kansas City has agreed to stop rejecting health insurance for some patients injured in auto accidents in order to collect more money from other sources, according to court records. The agreement,...
Louisiana Public Worker Health Insurance Program Hemorrhaging Cash
Sep 22 2014 // Despite sweeping changes enacted by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration, the health insurance program for state workers and public school employees will have to use $88 million from its reserve fund to cover its costs...
Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Losing Low-Cost Carrier
Sep 18 2014 // The insurance company that grabbed the most customers on Minnesota’s health care exchange by offering the lowest rates told state officials that it’s pulling out of MNsure, a major blow to the exchange as the...
Launch of State-Run Health Insurance Exchange Delayed in Arkansas
Sep 12 2014 // A nonprofit created by the Arkansas legislature has decided to delay establishing a state-run health insurance exchange until 2016 to avoid a rush to build the technology system for it. The Arkansas Health Insurance...
Florida Gets $7 Million in Grants for Health Insurance Navigators
Sep 12 2014 // Three Florida organizations will receive nearly $7 million to help consumers sign up for health insurance during the second enrollment season under the Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services officials said that the...
Alcoa, Others, Moving Some Retirees to Exchanges for Health Insurance
Sep 10 2014 // Alcoa Inc. is sending its white-collar retirees to a private exchange to shop for health insurance as the aluminum maker joins the growing ranks of large companies looking for ways to control benefit costs. The move by...
Oklahoma 2015 Health Insurance Exchange Rates Include Hikes, Decreases
Sep 5 2014 // Oklahomans shopping for individual health insurance policies through the federal exchange will be able to choose from six different companies offering multiple plans, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. Rate...
Arkansas Board Delays Health Insurance Exchange Grant Request
Aug 14 2014 // An Arkansas board is delaying its application for funding to establish a state-run health insurance exchange. The Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace Board, created by a law passed by state legislators last year, was...
Massachusetts Will Keep State-Based Health Website
Aug 11 2014 // Massachusetts officials overseeing the state’s hobbled health care exchange decided last Friday to stick with new software designed to upgrade the website rather than switching over to the federal government’s...
Poll: Only Kansas Sees Big Jump in Those Without Health Insurance
Aug 8 2014 // A new Gallup poll shows Kansas is the only state in the nation to see a significant increase in its uninsured rate for health coverage this year, while states that adopted parts of the Affordable Care Act have seen the...
Florida Firm Adding Jobs at Health Insurance Call Center in Texas
Aug 7 2014 // A Florida call center company plans to add about 400 jobs in Central Texas to assist people seeking federal health insurance coverage. C3/CustomerContactChannels currently employs about 600 workers in McGregor, near...
Florida Health Insurers File 2015 Rates
Aug 6 2014 // Eight insurance companies are raising the price of health plans and three are lowering them in Florida through the Affordable Care Act exchange, state insurance officials said this week. But whether some will pay more or...
20K Maine Residents to Get Health Insurance Premium Rebates
Jul 31 2014 // Nearly 20,000 Maine customers of health insurer Aetna are getting premium rebates because a provision in the Affordable Care Act limits what insurance companies can spend on administrative costs. The rebates for 2013...
UnitedHealth’s $173M Fine May Be Warning to P/C Insurers
Jul 30 2014 // A decision by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to fine UnitedHealth Group $173.6 million for violations having to do with the Unfair Business Practices Act, the Unfair Insurance Practice Act and unfair claims...
U.S. Attorneys in Dakotas Turning Up Heat on Health Care Fraud
Jul 30 2014 // The top federal prosecutors from South Dakota and North Dakota say they have increased their efforts to fight health care fraud. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson of South Dakota said he has restructured his office to allow...
N.H. Issues Consumer Clarification on ‘Multi-State’ Health Insurance Plans
Jul 18 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department issued a consumer clarification for state residents Thursday explaining what the term “multi-state” means on the state’s federally facilitated health insurance...
Massachusetts Reports Progress in Repairing Health Insurance Website
Jul 11 2014 // Massachusetts state officials are offering an upbeat assessment of efforts to repair the state’s hobbled health insurance website. Maydad Cohen, special assistant to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, told the...
‘Drafting Error’ Leads to Veto of Missouri Health Insurance Navigator Bill
Jul 9 2014 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation that would have limited who could work in the state as a health insurance guide and blamed a national conservative group for injecting an error into the model legislation. The...
The PPACA: What Employers Don’t Understand About Emerging Exposures
Jul 7 2014 // The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the emerging regulatory environment present difficult challenges to employers. As employers, regulators, administrators and courts begin to struggle with...
