Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
10 Regions of U.S. with Highest Health Insurance Premiums
Feb 3 2014 // These are the 10 regions of the country with the highest premiums for people buying insurance on the health law’s new marketplaces. The ranking is based on the lowest price “silver” plan, which is the...
Wisconsin Health Insurer Missing Hard Drive with Customer Data
Feb 2 2014 // Wisconsin’s Unity health insurance says a portable hard drive containing health information for about 41,000 people has been missing for seven weeks. The insurance company said it was offering identity theft...
Harvey Named Deputy Commissioner of Health Insurance in Louisiana
Jan 23 2014 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced to Korey Harvey has been appointed deputy commissioner of health insurance at the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). Harvey is a Louisiana native and received his...
Arkansas: License Required for Assisting with Health Insurance Marketplace
Jan 22 2014 // The Arkansas Insurance Department issued a reminder that all individuals and entities intending to assist consumers with the purchase of health insurance policies through the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace or the...
Texas Adopts Rules for Health Insurance Exchange Navigators
Jan 22 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) issued final rules that it says will strengthen protections for consumers who seek assistance from federal health benefit exchange navigators. The department says the rules address...
Obamacare to Ramp Up Pitch to Younger Insureds
Jan 14 2014 // The U.S. government said it would ramp up Obamacare outreach in 25 cities to lure younger people to the program after a report showed about 70 percent of the initial customers are 35 years of age or older. The effort by...
Minnesota Auditor Investigating Health Insurance Exchange, MNsure
Jan 8 2014 // Minnesota’s legislative auditor is conducting an investigation into the launch of MNsure, the state’s new online health insurance exchange. Since its launch, MNsure has been beset with problems such as a...
Texas Health Advisers Blast New Proposed Navigator Rules
Jan 7 2014 // During a public hearing on Jan. 5, counselors who help Texas residents up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act criticized proposed state rules that would require them to undergo additional training and pay...
Maryland Gov. O’Malley to Push Emergency Health Insurance Bill
Jan 6 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration will submit emergency legislation at the start of Maryland’s legislative session this week aimed at insuring people who thought they had successfully...
More than 116K Kentuckians Enroll for Health Insurance Through Kynect
Jan 2 2014 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s office says more than 116,000 Kentuckians have enrolled in health insurance through the commonwealth’s kynect website. Since Thanksgiving week, enrollments are up nearly 93 percent...
Doctors, Hospitals Expect Confusion as Obamacare Plans Begin
Jan 2 2014 // Hospitals and medical practices across the United States braced for confusion and administrative hassles as new insurance plans under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law took effect on Wednesday. More than 2...
Stolen Laptop Contained Data on S.C. Health Insurance Pool Members
Dec 31 2013 // A laptop stolen from an auditor’s car contained the personal information of more than 3,400 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool, an attorney hired by the pool told The Associated Press on Monday. The...
Circle These Dates: Health Law’s Key Tests in 2014
Dec 31 2013 // The new year brings the big test of President Barack Obama’s beleaguered health care law: Will it work? The heart of the law springs to life Wednesday, after nearly four years of political turmoil and three months of...
Mass., Vt. Take Action Against Health Insurance Website Developer
Dec 27 2013 // Massachusetts and Vermont are withholding payments and considering legal options against the contractor that set up the states’ problem-plagued health insurance websites. Massachusetts has paid $11 million of its $69...
White House Rebranding Obamacare for ‘Young Invincibles’
Dec 24 2013 // Last summer, White House officials planning a nationwide push to urge young adults to enroll in new health insurance plans had a big problem: Polls showed that many young, healthy people who could be key to the success of...
Amid Criticism, Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Chief Resigns
Dec 19 2013 // The chief of Minnesota’s health insurance marketplace resigned Dec. 17 after facing criticism over the troubled rollout and a questionably timed international vacation. April Todd-Malmlov submitted her resignation...
Obamacare November Enrollment Tops 250,000; Sebelius Seeks Probe of Botched Launch
Dec 11 2013 // More than 250,000 Americans selected private health insurance plans through Obamacare enrollment systems last month, better than twice as many as in October when the exchanges opened amid technology errors and...
Iowa Insurer Pokes Fun at Federal Website in Ads
Dec 9 2013 // The television ads produced by a Midwest insurance company show a series of medical mishaps: a man kicking the wrong leg in a reflex check, a urine sample bottle that won’t open for a frustrated patient and a blood...
Maryland the 3rd State to See Health Insurance Exchange Director Go
Dec 9 2013 // Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges, but three people leading their states’ exchanges have now left following problem-plagued...
Group Health Plans Pay for ‘Zero-Cost’ Workers’ Compensation Claims: Study
Dec 9 2013 // Workers’ compensation claims that result in no payment lead to millions of dollars in increased costs for employee group insurance plans, new research shows. Nationwide, so-called “zero-cost”...
