Latest Health Insurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Health Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Ark. AG Sues Company Selling Deceptive Prescription Drug Cards
Nov 4 2005 // Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe filed suit against Peoples Benefit Services Inc., a company that claims to offer discounts on prescription drugs, the AG’s office announced. Based in Pennsylvania, Peoples Benefit...
LDI Says Time Extension for Paying Premiums Still in Effect
Nov 2 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance issued a reminder that the department’s Emergency Rules required insurance companies to give policyholders affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita an automatic extension...
Health Insurance Up 22 Percent for Neb. Employees
Oct 31 2005 // Nebraska state employees will pay 22.1 percent more for health insurance next year, after union representatives and administrators failed to reach a compromise. The rising premiums will cost taxpayers about $21.4 million...
Okla. Commissioner to Issue Temporary Licenses to Medicare Volunteers
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that the Oklahoma Insurance Department will issue expedited temporary licenses to volunteers who are assisting senior citizens to enroll in the new Medicare Part D Prescription...
Health Insurance Companies Must Continue Coverage in La.
Oct 16 2005 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley has ordered health insurance companies in Louisiana to keep covering victims of Hurricane Katrina, even if they cannot pay their premiums, according to the Associated Press...
Mass. Lawmakers Promise Health Insurance Plan By Next Month
Oct 12 2005 // House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi vowed to deliver a bill dramatically expanding health care coverage to the uninsured in Massachusetts but shied away from offering specifics. DiMasi said the bill, which he promised to place...
Redmer Resigns as Maryland Chief to Take Health Insurer Position
Oct 12 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer is leaving his state job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a Delaware-based health insurance company. “It’s just a perfect...
More Than 12,000 Mo. Families Lose Health Insurance
Oct 5 2005 // More than 12,000 Missouri families saw health insurance on their children lapse this week when they failed to pay new premiums required by the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program. The new premiums,...
R.I. Governor Proposes Plan for Better Health System By 2010
Oct 4 2005 // Saying that affordable health care should be within the reach for all Rhode Islanders, Governor Donald L. Carcieri this week laid out a series of five initiatives to improve the state’s system of care by the eyar...
Durbin Pledges $1.6 Million for Ill. Health Insurance Pool
Sep 29 2005 // After months of blocking a Senate bill because he claimed it shortchanged his state, Sen. Dick Durbin announced Thursday that he has won assurances that Illinois’ state health insurance pool would get an extra $1.6...
Fla. Attorney General Warns of Medicare Con Artists
Sep 29 2005 // Attorney General Charlie Crist has warned Florida seniors to be on the lookout for con artists who may try to take advantage of consumers as they shop for new Medicare prescription drug coverage plans. As of Oct. 1,...
Ohio Weighs High-Risk Health Insurance Pool
Sep 26 2005 // The Ohio Legislature is looking at plans to help patients with expensive conditions – lung disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other ailments – buy the drugs they need for treatment. However, the plans...
WellCare to Offer PDP Plans in Miss., S.C., W.V.
Sep 26 2005 // Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans Inc. has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide prescription drug plan coverage to Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina, Mississippi and...
GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to Pay $150 million to Settle Fraud Case
Sep 22 2005 // GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $150 million to settle claims it overcharged the government for two anti-nausea drugs, and prosecutors say they’re looking into 150 cases of drug price fraud. The Glaxo settlement is the...
DISCOUNT HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN WARNING
Sep 19 2005 // Seven North Carolina Better Business Bureaus and 148 Chambers of Commerce are receiving letters of caution from Insurance Commissioner Jim Long urging them to warn their members and citizens about the differences between...
Wis. Launches First Health Insurance Cooperative
Sep 19 2005 // The first health insurance cooperative in Wisconsin is set to be introduced this month to help small businesses, nonprofits and individuals negotiate affordable insurance plans. According to Associated Press, Co-op Care of...
Louisiana Proposes Insurance Company Restrictions
Sep 8 2005 // A draft order released by Louisiana’s insurance commissioner Wednesday would significantly restrict the ability of property and health insurance companies to cancel the policies of Hurricane Katrina victims in that...
Wis. Launches First Health Insurance Cooperative
Sep 6 2005 // The first health insurance cooperative in the state of Wisconsin is set to be introduced this month to help small businesses, nonprofits and individuals negotiate affordable insurance plans. Its mission is to organize the...
N.C. Commissioner Warns About Advantage Marketing
Sep 5 2005 // Senior citizens should be aware of aggressive marketing of Medicare Advantage plans by insurance companies according to North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. He said some seniors are being advised to make...
